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“Thanks also to the Chicago Bears, the Chicago White Sox, the Washington Capitals, the Tulane Green Wave, and, above all, Everton Football Club, for providing me with sporting narratives that accompany my existence like a joyous bass line. For all of them, glory is a precious, rare emotion. I appreciate that as a reflection of life itself. Never take a second for granted. Make memories while you still can.”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“It might be flawed,' my dear friend answered. 'That doesn't matter. We all need something to believe in and it's the best thing we have. The entire world is a better place when we call all dream about the US.' God Bless America”
― Roger Bennett, Reborn in the USA: An Englishman's Love Letter to His Chosen Home

“They are all but forgotten now, as all men in war are ultimately forgotten. They are eternal, as all men in war are eternal. Who they were, where they were from in an America both blessed and brutal, the gung ho innocence that turned into the darkest horror as they traveled through the maze of being a marine, is not some period piece or contrived cautionary tale but the most timeless story of all: of humanity in the face of all that has become inhuman, the inhumanity of all that once was human, the remarkable sacrifice that men are still willing to make even when the world has gone mad, united by that thing you cannot ever control in war, however brave or careful or fearful or raging with revenge: who dies, because so many died after that game; who lives, because many did live despite combat and serious injury. The Mosquito Bowl.”
― Buzz Bissinger, The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

“With that vote the 1960s took their final turn, not to the polarization of left and right--though during the NIxon years there were moments so divisive reasonable people feared that the nation was coming undone--but to a bitter, often brutal struggle between an administration determined to reconstruct the order the decade's upheavals had shattered and those forces the shattering had released: a struggle for the nation's future shaped by the enormous weight of aits past, as the rest of the sixties had been.”
― Kevin Boyle, The Shattering: America in the 1960s