“I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.” ThinkingHas BeensStatesOpportunityUnitedRaceUnited StatesRelationRace Relations Author:Stephen Ambrose
“I think it's just that the private lives of our public leaders are so much more exposed today that if you're sensitive to protecting your family, it's much harder to not get defensive when somebody asks you those really rude questions about what your wife and your children are thinking and feeling at that exact moment.” IfsThinkingChildrenMomentsFeelingsTodayAsksLeaderWifeHarderOur ChildrenOur FamilyYour ChildrenSensitiveExposedRudePrivate Life Author:Stephen Ambrose
“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.” ThinkingWarLastsEasyCompanyHeroHeroismMikeRemarksGrandpaGrandsonNewsletters Author:Stephen Ambrose
“Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.” ThinkingMenDiesWinningTermSleepSacrificeWalkingRememberedWelshLieutenantsD Day Author:Stephen Ambrose
“In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries you have these great nation states hurling their young men at one another. The victory was really going to rest on who could do the best job of bringing up their kids to become efficient and effective soldiers. That's pretty grandiose, I guess, but I do think that, and thank God it's been the armies of democracy that have emerged from this as the triumphant armies.” ThinkingMenWarStatesKidsJobsYoungNationsPeaceDemocracyCenturyVictoryArmySoldierYoung ManThank GodEfficientDo The BestTwentieth CenturyTriumphantBest JobGreat NationsGrandioseHurling Author:Stephen Ambrose
