Currahee!

"...there was the exhilaration, the sheer joy of being caught up in something grand and noble and worth the peril of death."

Those are the timelessly true words which Martin Blumenson uses to describe the experience of the members of the 101st Airborne Division in WWII (see: Introduction to "A Screaming Eagle at Normandy" by Donald R. Burgett).

Once again, our generation is having a "Rendezvous with Destiny."