Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie

Loc 453

If a man must live in a mud and go hungry and risk his flesh, you must give him a reason for it, you must give him a cause. A conclusion is not a cause.

Loc 1398

Hunger, the jungle, the Japanese, not one nor all of these could be quite as corrosive as the feeling of expendability.

Loc 2820

Right private has no chance against a wrong major.

Loc 3898

The nurses talked only to doctors and the doctors talked only to God.

Loc 4371

Heroes turn traitor, warriors age and grow soft — but a victim is changeless, sacrifice is eternal.

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