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

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

I've really been sick with this cold, but I think I might have kept the columns going anyhow except I was just so low in spirit, I didn't have the will to struggle against them when my deadline was so close and I felt so lousy.

Say what you will, nothing can make a complete soldier except battle experience.

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.

Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.

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