“The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it”. -1LT Ronald Spears, Band of Brothers
More from BoB:
“We’re paratroopers, we’re supposed to be surrounded.”
“How do I feel about being rescued by Patton. Well I’d feel pretty peachy about it except for one thing, we didn’t f-—in’ need to be rescued by Patton, got that?”