There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.
Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.
It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.
One of the parodoxes of war is that those in the rear want to get up into the fight, while those in the lines want to get out.
Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
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.