“When I was a teenager I took freedom for granted until I got through the army and saw what the Nazis had done in Germany. Then I realized that freedom isn’t automatic; it has a price. World War II was a justified and necessary war. Last year I met five survivors of Auschwitz concentration camp. […]
“My thoughts always go back to the parents – here’s their kid who wouldn’t be coming back. I got this feeling all the way through. It didn’t matter if I saw a dead American or German, I always figured he belonged to somebody. You knew somebody was going to miss him. Forrest Guth” Marcus Brotherton, […]
“Nearby sat a veteran in a wheelchair. He was young, handsome, and athletic, through missing a leg. My daughter went to him and asked, “You’re army – right?” He said, “Yes, I am.” My daughter hugged him. “Thank you,” she said. Tears welled in the man’s eyes. “Did you get my card?” she asked. “My […]
“I came to see soldiers as men willing to lay down their lives for the sake of others. They fight for themselves and the generation under immediate attack, but certainly they fight for the futures of free peoples. Decades beyond World War II, I am one who benefited. That I can vote in presidential elections […]
“The liberty that the Band of Brothers fought for was not a freedom to do whatever we want whenever we want, but rather a freedom from tyranny, a freedom of self-determination, a freedom to make something of our lives.” Marcus Brotherton, A Company of Heroes: Personal Memories about the Real Band of Brothers and the […]
