i can't believe i fucked up my ass, sir.

someone give this man a hug

As the sun disappeared below the horizon and its glare no longer reflected off a glassy sea, I thought of how beautiful the sunsets always were in the Pacific. They were even more beautiful than over Mobile Bay. Suddenly a thought hit me like a thunderbolt. Would I live to see the sunset tomorrow? - Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Band of Brothers + The Onion (seventh edition)

Maybe Tercius knew there

          was some value to the men thinking 

                    he was the meanest, toughest son-of-a-bitch 

                              in the whole Roman l e g i o n

The stories about me. You want to know if they’re true, right? You know the funny thing about stories like that? Everyone always says they heard it from someone who was there. Then if you ask that person, they say *they* heard it from someone who was there, and so on. I bet if you went back 2,000 years, you’d find a bunch of centurions standing around talking about how Tertius lopped the heads off of some Carthaginian prisoners.

for @lenariggis​ ☄