Ernie Pyle Quotes About Soldiers

Quotes about: Soldiers

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

  Ernie Pyle

  Soldier, Battle

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

• But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

  Ernie Pyle

  Military, War, Writing

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

• All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over.

  Ernie Pyle

  War, Soldier, Lines

  Ernie Pyle (2004). “Here is Your War: Story of G.I. Joe”, p.196, U of Nebraska Press

• The 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 Pyle

  War, Soldier, Literature

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

• The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.

  Ernie Pyle

  Feet, Light, Soldier

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