Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.
Ernie PyleThe 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.
Ernie PyleSomebody said that carrier pilots were the best in the world, and they must be or there wouldn't be any of them left alive.
Ernie PyleAbout every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
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