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Jack Adams

"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."

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"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."

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Amber Hurdle

"Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!"

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"Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won."

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"We had our first meeting yesterday, and we just laughed all the way through, so if we can bottle that, then I'll be happy. We just get on, and that's half the battle."

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"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

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"General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off."

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"The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives."

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Amber Hurdle

"The most critical time in any battle is not when I'm fatigued, it's when I no longer care."

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"I had a very public battle with anorexia."

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"June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope."

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"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."
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"I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago."
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"You could tell that America was gearing up for war."
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"The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4."
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"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
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"A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class."
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"My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did."
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"On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor."
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"Everybody knew that I could type pretty well."
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"Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate."
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