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Lynn Compton dit Buck Compton est un officier de l'US Army et un vétéran de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Durant ce conflit, il est affecté à la Easy Company du 506e régiment d'infanterie parachutée de la 101e division aéroportée avec laquelle il combat en France et en Belgique.

Après la guerre, il s'oriente d'abord vers une carrière policière en intégrant le Los Angeles Police Department puis judiciaire en devenant District Attorney du comté de Los Angeles. Parallèlement il garde une activité militaire en faisant partie de la réserve de l'US Air Force. Après sa retraite en 1990, il participe à des manifestations et des réunions liées à l'histoire de la Easy Company. Wikipedia

✵ 31. décembre 1921 – 25. février 2012

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“Secrets have power over us. Only when secrets are revealed can truth be known and freedom brought about.”

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Lynn Compton

Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 107

“On closing this book, if I was to leave you with only one thought, it would be this: My life story could only happen in America. Look at my life: Here was a guy with very little observable potential- nothing much behind him except a couple loving parents. But because of the way this country functions I was able to make my way through and have a very good life. I don't think I had any special talent or ability. Anybody could do what I did if he wanted to. I've never resented anybody ho has something I didn't have, because I knew that in this country if I worked hard enough I could have it, too. The system in America allows for and welcomes success. That's worth fighting for if someone threatens to take it away. You can have anything or be anything you want in this country if you put your mind to it. Don't let anybody take that away from you.”

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Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 254

“To try to distinguish between our objectives in World War II and the war we are fighting today- that one war was justified and the other isn't- is a complete fallacy. All wars are wars of choice. The Revolutionary War was a war of choice- we could have stayed British subjects if we had wanted. Equally so, we could have chosen not to fight World War II if we had wanted. But there were compelling reasons to fight both the Revolutionary War and World War II, as there are compelling reasons to fight the war against terror today.”

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Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 250

“The word "freedom" is rather generic today, and in my mind, sadly, an ill-defined term. Many people think it simply means saying whatever you want and doing whatever you want whenever you want. But true freedom is easy to overlook today. Too many of our fellow citizens are willing to go to the polls and vote away the freedoms of themselves and others simply because they have been convinced of the supposed worthiness of some social goal.”

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Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 248

“But success in a military operation always feels short-lived. You shoulder your rifle and move on from there to the next battle.”

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Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 107

“As young people, my generation would see a lot of death. I don't think I ever grew accustomed to it. It came in darkness and fervor, by our airplanes, rifles, parachutes, and tanks. But there was something about that first death I experienced the summer of 1939 when I was just eighteen, years before the war, that stayed with me so strongly. Those first few seasons after my father died were dark indeed.”

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Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 54

“You have a tendency to think of wars as being fought in arenas set aside for fighting. But when you go through these farms and little towns, you realize wars are fought in people's backyards, stores, streets, and cities. It was all so very real then. It's real to me today.”

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Lynn Compton livre Call of Duty

Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 246

“Constantly we anticipated a large-scale nighttime attack. But day after day, night after night, it never came.”

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Lynn Compton livre Call of Duty

Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), p. 137

“The life I've led has only been made possible because I'm an American. The astounding people I've met along the way, the astonishing experience I've had, and the amazing opportunities I've been given have far exceeded anything I could have ever hoped for or expected.”

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Lynn Compton livre Call of Duty

Source: Call of Duty: My Life Before, During and After the Band of Brothers (2008), Preamble