“Lieutenant Welsh remembered walking around among the sleeping men, and thinking to himself that 'they had looked at and smelled death all around them all day but never even dreamed of applying the term to themselves. They hadn't come here to fear. They hadn't come to die. They had come to win.”

Stephen E. Ambrose

Stephen E. Ambrose - “Lieutenant Welsh remembered...” 1

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