Captain Sobel, we salute the rank, not the man.

How could anyone ever know of the price paid by soldiers in terror, agony and bloodshed if they’d never been to places like Normandy, Bastogne or Haguenau?

I’ve already seen the States, I grew up there. That’s why I came to Europe, just wish they told me there was a war on.

We’re paratroopers, Lieutenant. We’re supposed to be surrounded.

That night, I took time to thank God for seeing me through that day of days and prayed I would make it through D plus 1. And if, somehow, I managed to get home again, I promised God and myself that I would find a quiet piece of land someplace and spend the rest of my life in peace.