5 Quotes by William Guarnere

Joe Toye would try and lighten things up at night by singing ‘I’ll Be Seeing You.’ He’d sing a line of that song and before you know it, the guy next to him starts singing, and the guys next to him, and soon everybody’s singing. Even I’m singing and thinking, ‘What the hell, we’re all nuts.

When I think about the war, I don’t think about the battle, I think about the men. I look at an American flag today, and I see the faces of men I fought with, the ones who lived and the ones who died.

We knew each other’s next move, we trusted each other, it went right back to that bond. You’d give up your life for the man beside you. That’s when boys became men.

It’s a different generation, kid. Back then, people interacted with each other, they were patriotic, they cared about their community, shared what little they had. Today everybody’s separate.

Doc Roe was right there, trying to patch us up. Without him, we wouldn’t be alive. Roe was the best medic we ever had. He was born to be a medic. You could always depend on him. You hollered, ‘Medic!” he was right there come hell or high water, he knew what he was doing. He was compassionate, took care of you mentally, physically, every way. They put me on a stretcher before Joe. I said, ‘I told you I’d beat you back to the States,’ and then I passed out.