ABC Booklet
By Lane Lewis
American Revolution
― Benjamin Franklin
Battle of Antietam
-Pvt. Miles C. Huyette, Company B, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry
Eisenhower
"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
-Dwight D. Eisehower
French Revolution
― Maximilien de Robespierre
Hiroshima
-John Hersey
Iwo Jima
"Marines I see as two breeds, Rottweilers or Dobermans, because Marines come in two varieties, big and mean, or skinny and mean. They're aggressive on the attack and tenacious on the defense. They've got really short hair and they always go for the throat.”
- "Jay' R. Stark, U.S. Navy
Lt General Jonathan Wainwright
"Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking….. If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it."
-Lt General Jonathan Wainwright
KA-BAR
-Ronald Reagen
Monroe Doctrine
"The American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers."
"If America wants concessions, she must fight for them. We must purchase our power with our blood.”
-James Monroe
Invasion of Normandy
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
OA vz. 27
"...you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth."
-Unknown
P-61 Black Widow
"I felt that the new Black Widow was an extremely honest aircraft."
-Unknown
T28 Super Heavy Tank
"T28 was an unusual project. Started in Spring 1945, it was designed to break through German defenses and to counter German super heavy tanks such as Maus or E100 (none completed, fortunately)."
-Sarel
U.S. Army
“Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless-Service, Honor, Integrity, Personal Courage”
-The Army Values
V Bomber
"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber."
-Unknown
World War II
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein
Yankee
"I only know two tunes: one of them is "Yankee Doodle," and the other isn't."
-Ulysses S. Grant
ZB vz. 26
“Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.”
-Douglas MacArthur
Bibliography
"THE COLD WAR WARRIOR." THE COLD WAR WARRIOR. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 May 2014. <http://www.probuspontivyfr.org/coldwarwar
"Famous Quotes." BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 20 May 2014. <http://www.brainyquote.com/>.