Best Quotes by David Halberstam (Top 4)
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If youre a reporter, the easiest thing in the world is to get a story. The hardest thing is to verify. The old sins were about getting something wrong, that was a cardinal sin. The new sin is to be boring.
David Halberstam
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Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.
David Halberstam
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Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefield and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppression business.
David Halberstam
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This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.
David Halberstam