Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by David Kenyon Webster

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist David Kenyon Webster.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
David Kenyon Webster

David Kenyon Webster was an American soldier, journalist and author. During World War II he was a private with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division. Webster was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Eion Bailey.

Well, I thought, climbing slowly out of the slit trench, the shells will catch us above ground now. But if you have to go, you have to go. F Company’s in trouble, and we have to help them. We’re in reserve, so we have to go. And if we’re shelled, we’re shelled. There is absolutely nothing we can do about it.
Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice. — © David Kenyon Webster
Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice.
Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?
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