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“You know, Dusty, if you reach for the stars you may never quite grasp them, but you’ll never come up with a handful of mud.”
John C. McManus, Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
“He routinely asserted that an officer had a “cardinal duty to look after his men before he looks after himself.”
John C. McManus, Island Infernos: The US Army's Pacific War Odyssey, 1944
“The man who’s got the monkey on his back, the man who’s got responsibility, he’s the one you got to listen to.”
John C. McManus, Grunts: Inside the American Infantry Combat Experience, World War II Through Iraq

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