The clouds appeared and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore.

You are not a man anymore. You are a soldier. Your comfort is of no importance and your life isn't of much importance. Most of your orders will be unpleasant, but that's not your business. They should've trained you for this, and not for flower-strewn streets. They should have built your soul with truth, not led along with lies.

Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is.

The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson