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"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
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"Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness."
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"We heard the army before we saw it.The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas."
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"We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict."
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"To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over."
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"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
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"The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear."
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"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
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"What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy."
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"Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours."
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"I'm not here to battle anybody. In the end it's just an instrument. That shouldn't be a concept."
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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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"After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor."
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"I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago."
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"My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches."
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"If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle."
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"Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at her."
Military
"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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"You could tell that America was gearing up for war."
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"I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941."
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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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