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The Last Jump: Chapter 51
“There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.”Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689 – 1755) June 6, 1944Dear Johnny, Earlier today we got the news that the invasion of Europe had begun. I can’t help but | Read More »
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The Last Jump: Chapter 50
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”Adam Smith (1732 – 1790) Having scaled the heights of Pointe-du-Hoc, the U.S. Army Rangers patrolled vigorously inland beyond the shell pocked and bunker laden area adjacent to the cliffs above the | Read More »
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The Last Jump: Chapter 49
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The Last Jump: Chapter 48
“We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.”Major General Nathaniel Green (1742 – 1786) Armed only with his .45, Jake Kilroy led his small band of paratroopers through a sunken lane between two immense hedgerows. They moved quietly and stayed | Read More »
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The Last Jump: Chapter 47
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The Last Jump: Chapter 46
“One man with courage makes a majority.”Andrew Jackson (1767 – 1845) Johnny Kilroy dove out of the plane at a bad angle and knew he was in imminent danger of fouling his shroud lines. The snapping impact of his parachute | Read More »
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The Last Jump: Chapter 43
“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.”Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) The official name of the pub was The Queen’s Bazaar but it didn’t take long for the cocky young Americans to corrupt the name to the Queen’s | Read More »
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The Last Jump: Chapter 42
“Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to the vice of lying.”William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) “They arrived in Liverpool on the SS John Ericson at the end of October with some other Hundred and first artillery and engineer | Read More »
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The Last Jump: Chapter 41
“Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in,continue firm and constant.” Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC) December 24, 1943Dear Yank, Thanks for your letter. I was surprised at the return address. I never thought that’s where | Read More »
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The Last Jump: Chapter 40
“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”Horace, (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65 BC – 8 BC) Sergeant Harley Tidrick sat on his bunk in a Quonset hut in the town of Ivybridge, Devonshire, England. He had just returned to his | Read More »
