Spencer Bachus Quotes

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

All my grandparents and great aunts and uncle love 'Foyle's War.' They all lived through the war and love to see it reconstructed so authentically.

My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.

The first time I dedicated myself to resurrecting and preserving somebody's memories was with my great-uncle. I knew he was going to die in the next few years, and I had grown up listening to all his stories about people who had been trapped or chased by the Nazis. I began to record them.

In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.

Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

I'm glad I never went to war.

When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.

I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.