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When you are conjoined at the head with another person, it is so frustrating and so painful that you hate the person who keeps you all the time attached to him<br>her, but he<br>she also hates you.

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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.

Deep, Feet, Light, Living, Quick, Soldier
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Marines have a cynical approach to war. They believe in three things; liberty, payday and that when two Marines are together in a fight, one is being wasted. Being a minority group militarily, they are proud and sensitive in their dealings with other military organizations. A Marine's concept of a perfect battle is to have other Marines on the right and left flanks, Marine aircraft overhead and Marine artillery and naval gunfire backing them up.

Artillery, Backing, Believe, Left, Military, War

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can't be won without.

Boys, Comforts, Guys, Rain, War, Won

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

Harmony, People, Things, Two, Understanding

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.

Break Out, Fire, Firemen, Fires, Flames

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Giant, Giants, Men, Strange, War
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