On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:14:14 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:



"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."

War correspondent Ernie Pyle, killed on Ie Shima, Ryukyu Archipelago,
1945

Pyle was my favorite "war writer." Probably read all his WWII books
before I was 14. He brought it home.

--Vic