The Last Stand of Fox Company Quotes

“Retreat, hell,” he was quoted as saying. “We’re just attacking in another direction.”
― Bob Drury, The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

“For Captain Barber, this presented a moral dilemma. He was aware that Chinese battlefield strategy included playing dead in order to lure a Marine into proximity and then kill him, and he considered this premeditated murder. But did this tactic give him the right, in order to protect his own men, to summarily execute wounded enemy soldiers? His company was taking a severe beating on this hill, and he could not afford to lose even one more Marine in this way. If the enemy surrendered, that was one thing—although how many men he could spare to guard prisoners was another complicating factor he’d have to figure out later. For now, however, he issued orders to put all “dead” and wounded Chinese out of their misery. Such were the exigencies of war and the burden of command in combat.”
― Bob Drury, The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

“To its acolytes, the Marine Corps was no less than a secular religion-Jesuits with guns-grounded in a training regimen and an ethos that relied on a historical narrative of comradeship and brotherhood in arms stretching over 150 years. In short, if a man wanted to be part of America's toughest lineup, he had best join the institution that had fought at the Halls of Montezuma and Tripoli, Belleau Wood and Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Iwo Jima.”
― Tom Clavin, The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

“Mythology is what never was, but always is.”
― Bob Drury, The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat

“packed”
― Bob Drury, The Last Stand of Fox Company: A True Story of U.S. Marines in Combat