shadow divers quote

****, excellent recommendation.  Just read these lines from Chatterton's experience as a medic walking point in Vietnam.  They ring true with my own limited experience.  Dig it. -If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. -If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. -Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. -Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. -Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you. -It is easiest to live with a decision if it is based on an earnest sense of right and wrong. -The guy who gets killed is often the guy who got nervous.  The guy who doesn't care anymore, who has said, "I'm already dead--the fact that I live or die is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the accounting I give of myself," is the most formidable force in the world. -The worst possible decision is to give up. The book is called Shadow Divers and is about the guys who discovered a sunken U-boat off the New Jersey coast in 1991. NFH