Monday, February 25, 2013

Trying to locate the POW camp my mother's fiance, PFC Ken M. Lampton, died in after being captured during the Battle of the Bulge.  The camp was called Stalag 6G Bonn Rheinland, Prussia 50-07.  According to the records, he was captured on 12/18/44 and died there 7/11/45.  Not sure how he could have died in July of 1945 when the war ended 5/8/45 on VE day.  Hmmm...
I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, upon learning of the success of the attack on Pearl Harbor
When I said that British fighter-bombers had shot up my tanks with 40mm shells, the Reichsmarschall who felt himself touched by this, said: 'That's completely impossible. The Americans only know how to make razor blades.' I replied: 'We could do with some of those razor blades, Herr Reichsmarshall.'
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

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No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
General George S. Patton, Jr.,
in Patton by Francis Ford Coppola

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We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction.
General Douglas MacArthur

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And when he gets to Heaven
To St. Peter he will tell:
'One more Marine reporting, Sir — I've served my time in Hell.'
Sgt. James A. Donahue
First Marine Division

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Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls."
Winston Churchill

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