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12-171 Garand Picture of the Day - Market Garden
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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A Brigadier General getting in the mix! WOW! That sure is one way to get the men under your command to respect.
Bill Hollinger
"We're surrounded, that simplifies our problem!"
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"Jumpin' Jim" subscribed to the command philosophy that the Airborne General should be first out the door and last in the chow line and should look like the troopers around him. He carried a Garand
. At birth he was orphaned and adopted by alcoholics. He joined the Army at 17 years old and, on the recommendation of his sergeant, was given an appointment to West Point.
Gavin fractured two vertebrae landing on pavement on the Market Garden jump and fought the rest of the war on an injured back.
Bob
"It is said, 'Go not to the elves for counsel for they will say both no and yes.' "
Frodo Baggins to Gildor Inglorion, The Fellowship of the Ring
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