This is Jockel Podcast number two, 14 with Echo Charles and me, Jockel Willink.

Good evening, Echo.

Good evening.

Dear George, at zero seven hundred this morning, the BBC announced that the German radio

had just come out with an announcement of the landing of allied paratroops and of large

numbers of assault craft near the shore.

So that is it.

This group of unconquerable heroes, who my command are not in yet, but we will be soon.

I wish I was there now as it is a lovely sunny day for battle and I am fed up with just

sitting.

I have no immediate idea of being killed, but one can never tell and none of us can live

forever.

So if I should go, don't worry but set yourself to do better than I have.

All men are timid on entering any fight, whether it is the first fight or the last fight,

all of us are timid.

Cowards are those who let their timidity get the better of their manhood.

You will never do that because of your bloodlines on both sides.

I think I have told you the story of Marshall Torrain who fought under Louis XIV.

From the morning of one of his last battles, he had been fighting for 40 years.

He was mounting his horse when a young aide to camp who had just come from the court and

had never missed a meal or heard a hostile shot said Mr. Torrain.

It amazes me that a man of your supposed courage should permit his knees to tremble as

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