Tag: Quote of the Day

For me war has become a flat, black depression without highlights, a revulsion of the mind and an exhaustion of the spirit.

Ernie Pyle

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Ernie Pyle

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

Ernie Pyle

There is no sense in the struggle, but there is no choice but to struggle.

Ernie Pyle

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

Ernie Pyle

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.

Ernie Pyle

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

Ernie Pyle

I love the infantry because they are the underdogs. They are the mud-rain-frost-and-wind boys. They have no comforts, and they even learn to live without the necessities. And in the end they are the guys that wars can’t be won without.

Ernie Pyle