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No amount of training can prepare someone for the rigors, the chaos, and the sheer terror of coming under fire. Though the locations and armament changes with each war, the basic human emotions involved remain the same. No one who has been in the heat of battle ever thinks that luck had nothing to do with his or her survival. Please note: page numbers refer to the pages in "Voices of War" on which the veteran appears.
Corbin Willis delivers a stunning story dotted with heartbreaking humor. He survives interrogation, scabies, a crippling weight loss, and a 100-mile march through the snow from one POW camp to another in Germany. Upon return home, he finds out that most people think he has died. His mother tells him that his wife has remarried and is starting a new family. (featured on pages 168-171)
“Many of us called it the ride of death, for we were riding to what was to be the biggest battle of the war.” – Theodore Kohls
"What in hell were you people doing back there anyway, to be caught that way?"
Donald Patrick Finn's story
(pages 119-122)
"I didn't want to be in Germany when there was a war going on in Vietnam."
Senator Chuck Hagel's story
(pages 18-19, 39, 52-53)
"I felt well enough ... but I didn't want to face a military court so I went to the hospital..."
William Frederick Nice's story
(pages 109, 114-117)
"They wanted to prove that we could be as tough as the males, so they worked us pretty hard."
Joanne D. Palella's story
(pages 149, 166-167)
"I hated to face the reality that I was about to undergo a drastic change in my 'life style'."
Nathaniel G. Raley's story
(pages 142-145)
"... we could expect to be in the thick of things all the way to Tokyo..."
Joseph Steinbacher's story
(pages 122, 128-130)
