“Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle-hardened. He will fight savagely … I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good Luck! And let us all beseech the blessing of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.”

-General Dwight Eisenhower

“At the core, the American citizen soldiers knew the difference between right and wrong, and they didn’t want to live in a world in which wrong prevailed. So they fought, and won, and we, all of us, living and yet to be born, must be forever profoundly grateful.”

-Author Stephen Ambrose

“All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.”

-Sophocles

“Every war is going to astonish you in the way it has occurred and in the way it is carried.”

– President Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It is better to learn late than never.”

-Publilius Syrus