Re-read "The Day the War Ended" by Martin Gilbert and saw a little of George W. Bush at Margraten US Battle Cemetery in The Netherlands. Some of Bill Guarnere's pals from Easy Company ("Band of Brothers") are there, including Bill Dukeman and Ollie Horton. Good place for Bush to be that day. Most of those guys are paratroopers and airmen who fell in Holland and Belgium.
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"My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill.
"I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
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