The trouble with saying “I would have done it differently” is that we’re always speaking from a position of knowing exactly what is about to go horribly wrong. The truth is, we’d be lucky to do half so well if the Rising began again today.
—Mahir Gowda
Get it in, get it up, get it done.
—Shawn Tutt,
Lt. Commander, United States Coast Guard (d. 2014)