American - Journalist | August 3, 1900 - April 18, 1945
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
Ernie Pyle
WarThinkFeelI CanSeeOut
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
EyesSimpleVictoryDoingNothing
It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
FireNightLondon
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.
TimeMeEnoughRight TimeKnowMore
Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now.
NowMattersFirstSwinging
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.
LightFeetDeepAmericanEarthNew
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.
EnoughDownOutLittleBreakBig
The front-line soldier wants it to be got over by the physical process of his destroying enough Germans to end it. He is truly at war. The rest of us, no matter how hard we work, are not.
WorkWarRestProcessEndEnough
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