Far from Cactus Flats Quotes

“Each account I read deepens my gratitude for what they did, and heightens my appreciation for the fact that I have not been required to do it. Along with it comes a flash of guilt as I realize that I have been blessed with a wide open path to pursue my dreams while so many of them never came home.”
― Lyman Hafen, Far from Cactus Flats

“It was almost incomprehensible to me, as I sat there and looked across the lower Hurricane Valley, how much this remote corner of the world had given to the war effort in the early 1940s.”
― Lyman Hafen, Far from Cactus Flats

“What they didn't realize at the time, was that across the entire visible landscape, stirrup-high in grass that year, there was not one spring, on running creek, or one source of live water anywhere.”
― Lyman Hafen, Far from Cactus Flats

“They were a unique and intriguing family. My admiration for them had its roots in the stories my father had told me, stories of abject poverty and survival and even success in a place so remote and inhospitable that few would have ever entertained the idea, much less possessed the courage, to go there in the first place.”
― Lyman Hafen, Far from Cactus Flats