Ridgway, a well-built, bald soldier with the look of eagles about his strong-nosed face, was the kind of leader the Eighth Army needed. For as the commandos say, “It is all in the mind and in the heart,” and battles, more often, are won not on the drawing boards but in the hearts of men. Ridgway was a strong man, and an articulate one. He could think, and he could put his thoughts across with pen and tongue. He was possessed of such personal courage that, caught in artillery shellfire, he was always the first man out of the ditch—a habit that caused his aide, a Medal of Honor winner, once to
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