I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.

If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it. The U.S. Army still has to learn that. The British understand it. Patton understood it. I always admired Patton. Oh, sure, the stupid bastard was crazy. He was insane. He thought he was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude, but I certainly respected his theories and the techniques he used to get his men out of their foxholes.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo.

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

A soldier's life revolves around his mail. Like many others, I've been able to follow my kid's progress from the day he was born until now he is able to walk and talk a little, and although I have never seen him I know him very well.