Friendship Quote by Mitchell Zuckoff

While researching the book, I used the Freedom of Information Act to request what the military calls Individual Deceased Personnel Files for all the…

— Mitchell Zuckoff

“Captain Werner Von Bachelle of the 6th Wisconsin in General John Gibbon’s Iron Brigade, who died on the Hagerstown Pike with his Newfoundland dog…

— Carol Reardon

I knew about my grandmother's husband who died in the Albion coal disaster. But I didn't know a brother died in the same disaster…

— Shakin' Stevens

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and…

— Buffalo Bill

My grandfather was a Tuskegee Airman. He flew with the 100th Fighter Squadron.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“Grauman died of heart failure in the spring of 1950, died a bachelor, aged seventy-one, and the only people at his deathbed were his…

— Otto Friedrich

My grandmother was from Guelph, Ont. I grew up playing ice hockey, I'm a massive fan. A great-uncle who was in the early days…

— Don Winslow

Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

— Saib Tabrizi

My grandpa was a World War II paratrooper, my uncle a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient, my cousins both Marine Corps officers. I have some…

— Tomi Lahren

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

— Roy Barnes

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest…

— W. G. Sebald

Did your great-grandfather have any children?

— Fern Britton