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A review by book_cryptid
Parachute Infantry: An American Paratrooper's Memoir of D-Day and the Fall of the Third Reich by David Kenyon Webster
4.5
you go out of the world the way you came in: surrounded by people and utterly alone.
if i could quote this entire book here i would. instead have the moments david k. webster actually broke my heart-
god, it's quiet... what a lousy way to leave the world. nobody to say goodbye. nobody who loves you waving from the door... how quiet it is - and godforsaken lonely.
i don't want to hurt anybody, i would say. all i ask of the world is to be left alone.
was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?
we were ready to go again, because we could only go forward, never back.
a death without love, a death without hope. god, who invented war?
life isn't worth living if you don't try to make the most of every minute of it. i don't mean being virtuous or successful necessarily, but happy.
if i could quote this entire book here i would. instead have the moments david k. webster actually broke my heart-
god, it's quiet... what a lousy way to leave the world. nobody to say goodbye. nobody who loves you waving from the door... how quiet it is - and godforsaken lonely.
i don't want to hurt anybody, i would say. all i ask of the world is to be left alone.
was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?
we were ready to go again, because we could only go forward, never back.
a death without love, a death without hope. god, who invented war?
life isn't worth living if you don't try to make the most of every minute of it. i don't mean being virtuous or successful necessarily, but happy.