Travel Tips

"Great nations need reminders, reminders of what made them great in the first place, and what has kept them great through the ages."
General Henry H. Shelton

"...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew either victory nor defeat."
President Theodore Roosevelt

"Over the years of our history our forces have gone forth into many lands, but always they returned when they were no longer needed. For the purpose of America is never to suppress liberty but always to save it. The purpose of America is never to take freedom but always to return it, never to breach peace but to bolster it, and never to seize land but always to save lives."
President Lyndon B. Johnson

"..they became Drill Seargents and Black hats at Jump School, but mostly stayed Paras back at Ft. Bragg.."

"..There's a photograph that should have been taken, and I should have it. It's of a young man and a girl at the beach and she is wearing his maroon beret and has her arms around his waist.."

"..I have only one story of my own and sometimes just the right mixture of coffee and egg sandwich in the mouth gets the story started. Sometimes the sky needs to turn pink at the edges.."