James D. Bradley Quotes

#1. Later he would declare that not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet.

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#2. Like a moth, Rene was attracted to the flame of fame

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#3. Roughly fifty percent of procedure in a Marine basic-training program is about disconnecting the young American boy from his concept of himself as a unique individual, a lone operator.

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#4. That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn't it? By telling stories about them; true stories.

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#5. Iwo Jima had become the number-one front-page story in newspapers across the country. And it had become the most heavily covered, written-about battle in World War II.

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#6. They are such thin things, these lives of ours; cheap got, cheap lost, mere flickers against the ever dark, brief shadows on a wall. This life no more substantial than breath, a light which fills the chambers of our bodies, and is gone.

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#7. When I asked him, fifty-three years after the event, "Mr. Lucas, why did you jump on those grenades?" he did not hesitate with his answer: "To save my buddies.

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#8. Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a "John Doe" the next.

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#9. Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.

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#10. When U.S. prisoners were killed, it was "murder in flagrant disregard of the Geneva Conventions." But when Americans murdered Others, "they had it coming to them.

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#11. Japan had held 132,134 western POWs and 35,756 of them died in detention, a death rate of 27 percent. In contrast, only 4 percent of the POWs held by the Germans and Italians died.

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#12. True combat power is arms multiplied by fighting spirit. If one of them is infinitely strong, you will succeed. - Asahi Shimbun newspaper, quoted in Japan at War: An Oral History

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#13. The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy.
Billy Mitchell

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