"When you're a paratrooper, you're the elite of the Army, you're always on the front lines. You know you're going to p…"

"I kept my eyes and ears open and my mouth shut. That's what I learned growing up in South Philly. You want to get edu…"

"Camp Toccoa was only about one thing: weeding out the weaklings. Our training schedule was brutal, and the training w…"

"My leadership abilities came through right away. You can tell the leaders, they're at the front, they're observers, t…"

"In June, we got attached to the 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles. They were formed August 1942. They had…"

"Combat was getting closer, and I took it upon myself to learn every gun that I could get my hands on. Taking initiati…"

"I drove trucks. I drove Jeeps. I tried to be versatile. I didn't say a word to nobody. I just did it. If I told them,…"

"I first made contact with Bill on November 18, 1999- the night before my fourth and final audition for the miniseries…"

"Our Nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal."

"O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free, The shrine of each patriot's devotion, A world…"