Dead Men Flying Quotes

“Change will come, but only following a proper education of the children.”
― General Patrick Henry Brady, Dead Men Flying

“would not give a drop of blood for the America we are becoming—the America of the New York Times, the Obamas, the Pelosis, the Reids, the Ginsbergs, the Ivy League professors, and others in our axis of evil: the courtrooms, the classrooms, the cloakrooms and the newsrooms (C3N).”
― General Patrick Henry Brady, Dead Men Flying: Victory in Viet Nam The Legend of Dust off: America's Battlefield Angels

“Lord, I pray for the eyes of an eagle, the quickness of a hummingbird, the reflexes of a cat, the radar of a cave bat, the heart of a lion, and the balls of a helicopter pilot.”)”
― General Patrick Henry Brady, Dead Men Flying: Victory in Viet Nam The Legend of Dust off: America's Battlefield Angels

“Only John Steinbeck, who as both a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner in Literature, had the words to properly and beautifully describes helicopter pilots. In 1967 he wrote the following to Alicia Patterson, Newsday’s first editor and publisher after a chopper ride. “I wish I could tell you about these pilots. They make me sick with envy. They ride their vehicles the way a man controls a fine, well-trained quarter horse. They weave along stream beds, rise like swallows to clear trees, they turn and twist and dip like swifts in the evening. I watch their hands and feet on the controls, the delicacy of the coordination reminds me of the sure and seeming slow hands of (Pablo) Casals on the cello. They are truly musicians hands and they play their controls like music and they dance them like ballerinas and they make me jealous because I want so much to do it.”
― Patrick Henry Brady, Dead Men Flying

“Rules are made by men, often by lessor nobles, as a place to hide”
― General Patrick Henry Brady, Dead Men Flying

“In the original Epiphany, the wise men had followed a star to our Savior. My star was a flare and we would follow it to save many GIs.”
― General Patrick Henry Brady, Dead Men Flying