“When I asked him, fifty-three years after the event, "Mr. Lucas, why did you jump on those grenades?" he did not hesitate with his answer: "To save my buddies.” — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“They are such thin things, these lives of ours; cheap got, cheap lost, mere flickers against the ever dark, brief shadows on a wall.… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“This giant fleet of American warships – a modern armada – churns across the ocean day and night for a journey of four thousand… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“It would be forty-four years before physicist Donald Olson would discover that D-Day at Tarawa occurred during one of only two days in 1943… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“The battle of Iwo Jima would quickly turn into a primitive contest of gladiators: Japanese gladiators fighting from caves and tunnels like the catacombs… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“Today the word "hero" has been diminished. confused with "celebrity." But in my father's generation the word meant something. celebrities seek fame. They take… — james bradley Copy Share Image
“Nations tend to see the other side's war atrocities as systemic and indicative of their culture and their own atrocities as justified or the… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“The American people will regret the day I was crucified by politics and bureaucracy." Billy Mitchell” — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“The Flyboy who got away became president of the United States. What might have been for Warren Earl, Dick, Marve, Glenn, Floyd, Jimmy, the… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“When I asked him, fifty-three years after the event, "Mr. Lucas, why did you jump on those grenades?" he did not hesitate with his… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
