Scott Carpenter

"The previous July, two months after V-E Day, I was on a three-day pass and wound up in the "U" section of o…"

"I'm going to work hard not to have any wrong thoughts!"

"There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty."

"The frightful casualties appalled me. The so-called "good fighting generals" of the war appeared to me to b…"

"Let me alone, I have yet my legs left, and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and get his instruments.…"

"Regret is something for little children."