“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.”
Source: Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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American historian 1936–2002Related quotes
“Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes.”
Source: Civilisation (1969), Ch. 5: The Hero as Artist

Family Leadership Summit 2015, quoted in
2010s, 2015

Interview published with the Biograph album set (1985)
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 8
Press conference in New York, as quoted in CommingSoon (June 2007) http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=21257
2007