Top Highlights

• The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know. —HARRY TRUMAN
• “The real heroes of Iwo Jima,” he said once, coming as close as he ever would, “are the guys who didn’t come back.”
• An American boy’s life in the thirties, whether at work or at play, was about connection and community in ways that are hard to imagine today. It was about dreams, vivid and optimistic dreams of a future as radiant as Buck Rogers’s cosmos.
• if the men in charge of America’s Pacific forces were temporarily stunned by the onslaught, America’s boys were spoiling for vengeance.
• “Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without” became a popular slogan.