Your mind goes blank because you're almost saying to yourself, 'What's this going to feel like when it hits? I'm dead. We're dead'.

There was something like 20,000 guys involved in Tiger. They started in January having these dress rehearsals, and there were two or three before us. One was Beaver; I forgot the other names.

What happened was there were eight Lasts; the first five came out of another port, and they went out into the Channel and waited. Now around dusk, with [the remaining three Lasts], when it came time for us to go out and rendezvous with them, we ended up with one escort ship. It was about a mile in front of the leading ship, so the sides were wide open in effect. My ship, the 507, is the last ship in line, which is bad.

...choose your battles wisely and remember, what the heart knows, walks afar from reason. It simply is.

At first glance, you think, 'What is that commercial saying? Is it saying Southwest changed its mind?'

I'm not saying he's Priest Holmes. But I'm sure he had some of that in the back of his mind, too. That was a selling point.