Where the Birds Never Sing by Jack Sacco

Author:Jack Sacco
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2003-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Ed Duthie, Paul Averitt, and me in Normandy, France, June 1944.

PART III

Days of Battle

When the great day of battle comes, remember your training. And remember, above all, that speed and vigor of attack are the sure roads to success and that you must succeed. To retreat is as cowardly as it is fatal.

Battle is not a terrifying ordeal to be endured. It is a magnificent experience wherein all of the elements that have made man superior to the beasts are present. Courage, self-sacrifice, loyalty, help to others, and devotion to duty. As you go in, you will perhaps be a little short of breath, and your knees may tremble. This breathlessness, this tremor—they are not fear. It is simply the excitement which every athlete feels just before the whistle blows. No, you will not fear, for you will be borne up by proud instinct and inspired by magnificent hate.

—GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON

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