Sunday, May 21, 2006

 

Thought of the Day

The average soldier, much less a civilian, can form little concept of the scope of a battle. For us it was the part we were mixed up in...The war, to the dogface dodging mortar shells, is concentrated on him. He judges the nature of combat by his own relation to it. Thus battle becomes a very personal thing. If he gets killed, the war is over; if he lives, the war goes on. It becomes personally important therefore th the front line infantryman that the war for him continue. He will not cease to be in it until he is either deat or seriously incapacitated. War gets
to be the one permanent value in his being.

My cousin Ross Carter in Those Devils in Baggy Pants

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