All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

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

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

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.

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.

Somebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.