“When I was a kid, I asked my grandpa once if he ever killed any Germans in the war. He wouldn’t answer. He said that was grown up stuff….
So I asked if the Germans ever tried to kill him, but he got real quiet. He said he was dead the minute he steeped into enemy territory. Every day he woke up he told himself, ‘rest in peace—now get up and go to war.’ And then after a few years of pretending he was dead, he made it out alive. And that’s the trick of it, I think. We do what we need to do, and then we get to live. But no matter what we find I know we’ll be okay, because this is how we survive.
We tell ourselves that we are the walking dead.”
~ Andrew Lincoln, ‘Walking Dead’ star explains why the latest episode made him cry…
Photo Source: The War, An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns
WWII Letters: www.ComesASoldiersWhisper.com
