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"The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery."
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"A minor request," said Mazer. "Let's not refer to it as the training cage. 'Training' sounds laborious and regimented. Soldiers groan at the word. These men joined the IF to fight, sir. Let's call it the Battle Room."
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"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip."
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"The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
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"The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?"
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"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."
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"It is considered a major sin to break a contract, if you agreed, especially with military situations."
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"You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight."
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"I felt a little uncomfortable because, when I went in to the military, I was the main male vocalist they had and when I came out they had like two or three vocalists. Otis came in when I was in the military, too."
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"We have got thousands of nuclear weapons in order to achieve deterrence."
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"We won't always have the strongest military."
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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."
Hurt
"If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone."
Lifestyle
"Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with."
Time
"The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later."
Danger
"Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now."
Sports
"I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy."
Spirit
"All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over."
War
"The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery."
Military
"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire."
Fire
"Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges."
Peace
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