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The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a pre-arranged crossing…

— Bo Gritz

This is a stealth mission. We will be in and out before they even know we were in there. -Brian O'Conner

— Fast Five

“At around 8 pm we heard the sound of sirens. As the sound drew nearer and nearer, we caught sight of a fire truck.…

— Kyle Rohrig

All at once the cockpit lit up with a sort of white glow because your entry was at 25,000 miles an hour and it…

— Fred Haise

“The Israeli border police guarding the central region near the Jordanian border had been told to take all measures necessary to keep order that…

— Alex von Tunzelmann

“FIRE: CU12-3270—LOCKDOWN ENACTED. ALL NEARBY VOLUNTEER PERSONNEL TO RESPOND.”

— Andy Weir

“Often Soviet soldiers located insurgents only by drawing their fire—the 1956 version of a perilous form of combat patrol, known among soldiers as the…

— C.J. Chivers

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

— Terry Pratchett

“The US military had this huge generator they needed to get to an airfield site they were planning in the south. This was a…

— Matt Potter

“So they turned around and retraced their trip as morning dawned, eventually reentering the southern gate at Phu Bai. At about 8:30, more than…

— Mark Bowden

The rockets light! The shuttle leaps off the launch pad in a cloud of steam and a trail of fire.

— Sally Ride

“The firemen said there were little fires everywhere,” Lexie said. “Multiple points of origin. Possible use of accelerant. Not an accident.”

— Celeste Ng