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I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
Ernie Pyle -
I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.
Ernie Pyle
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Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.
Ernie Pyle -
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
Ernie Pyle -
The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.
Ernie Pyle -
But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.
Ernie Pyle -
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
Ernie Pyle