I came in with questions about insurance, and they told me my husband was eligible for medals. He never had any idea.

Those planes were not meant to fly without both engines. When they lost one, they couldn't keep their altitude. But he managed to keep it trimmed and throw out as much as he could in order to land it.

Each plane was making two or three missions a day. Some of them were just terrible. They were getting flak hits every 20 seconds for about an hour-and-a-half on one of the worst bomb runs.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.