That is how we always keep our beloved dead alive, isn’t it? By telling stories about them; true stories.

Roughly fifty percent of procedure in a Marine basic-training program is about disconnecting the young American boy from his concept of himself as a unique individual, a lone operator.

Later he would declare that “not getting hit was like running through rain and not getting wet.

Iwo Jima had become the number-one front-page story in newspapers across the country. And it had become the most heavily covered, written-about battle in World War II.

Celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content.

Late in his life, Rene complained of living a life of a celebrity one minute and a “John Doe” the next.