USS Wickes Dd-578/battle of Okinawa March - June 1945

Famous quotes containing the words june, march and/or battle:

    “Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures ...”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)

    “‘Oh beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,
    Play the Dead March as you carry me along;
    Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o’er me,
    For I’m a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong.”
    —Unknown. As I Walked Out in the Streets of Laredo (l. 5–8)

    “The mother’s battle for her child—with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life—needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.”
    —Adrienne Rich (20th century)