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“Poor bastard, I thought, listening to him. He’s trying to hide from us. He’s dying, and he knows we want to kill him. What a fate: to gasp your life out all alone in the mud of a dirty little creek, helpless to hold off the slow death that is inside you and the quicker death that is walking up on you on the other side of the water. A death without love, a death without hope. God, who invented war? But if he gets back alive, I may be dead.”

Quote by David Kenyon Webster

Book:Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich

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Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich

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David Kenyon Webster

David Kenyon Webster was a renowned journalist known for his in-depth coverage of wars. Born on June 2, 1922, and passing away on September 9, 1961, Webster's work was characterized by his sharp observations and profound insights into the realities of war. more

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