9 Quotes by Edward Heffron

If anyone ever tells you the Holocaust didn’t happen, or that it wasn’t as bad as they say, no, it was worse than they say. What we saw, what these Germans did, it was worse than you can possibly imagine.

The reunions have always been more fun than serious. When you’re with the guys, you’re eighteen year old again.

As bad off as we were, as cold as we were, as hungry as we were, as sick as we were, I don’t think an American Airborne soldier could throw down his gun.

What was strange was when Frank Hughes or the other actors would talk to Robin Laing, and he’d say, ‘Hey, Babe,’ or ‘Hey, Heffron.’ It made me stop and look around.

I put my hand on Bill’s shoulder and told him, yeah the sacrifice was worth it. He said, ‘Yeah, I think so, too.

Every June we think of D-Day, every September we think of Holland, every December we think of Bastogne.

When someone takes a shell for you, it’s hard to forget about it.

If you ever hear Bill’s sayings, he copies them from me. If you offer him something to eat, he says, ‘No thanks, I just had a peanut.’ Well, he got that from me. It’s supposed to be funny, but he says it constantly, so it gets on my nerves. Bill says, ‘I’m sorry you ever told me that one.

The first time we went back to Bastogne, thank God it wasn’t winter. The foxholes are still there. There’s some debris lying in the holes. The outlines from the baseplate of the mortar is still there, where Malarkey had it set up.