Rick Atkinson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the young. This is one of the times when God doesnâ€™t seem to make sense. This is the worst that life gets.”
-- Rick Atkinson

#Scream #Young #Structure
“I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.”
-- Rick Atkinson

#Thank You #Country #Memorial Day
“In battle, topography is fate.”
-- Rick Atkinson

#Fate #Battle #Topography
“If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.”
-- Rick Atkinson

#Narrative #Conclusion #Reader
“I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.”
-- Rick Atkinson

#Home #Iraq #Office
“Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.”
-- Rick Atkinson

#War #Forests #Clash
“The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.”
-- Rick Atkinson

#War #Army #World
“Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.”
-- Rick Atkinson

#Giving Up #War #Order
“There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. Thats almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.”
-- Rick Atkinson

#War #June #Soldier

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