Max Bodt Quotes
In a war, the hearts and minds of the people on the home front are just as important as the hearts and minds of those in the war zone.
Max Bodt, Military Historian, Speech, City Club of San Diego April 26, 2002
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This quotation gives us a concept of the WWII home front effort where virtually everyone in American society was personally involved on a daily basis in the war. See also {637440}. This was so dramatically different from the home fronts for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq where most of the American public had no direct contact with the war effort and was not called upon or even needed to do anything.
The American Army had just liberated Bellau Wood, but had lost almost 8,000 men.
He was killed while attempting to deliver a message between battalions. President Ronald Reagan used this quotation in his First Inaugural Address on January 20, 1981. The Rainbow Division was the famous nickname of the 42nd Infantry Division.
For a man of God, Davies was a military hawk of his day. See {599233} .
At the time although the United States was providing material assistance to England, there was still the naïve belief that America could avoid becoming involved in WWII.
The phrase was picked up by the press, and then became the title to a patriotic song of World War II.
declared against the United States by Barbary Algeria
