“Let's shoot the works and win! Yes win it all.”

“Lack of orders is no excuse for inaction.”

“Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.”

“All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don t ever let up. Don t ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain.”

“We want to get the hell over there. The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.”

“Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.”

“Death has nothing to do with going away.The sun setsThe moon setsBut they are not gone.”

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.”