“There is a story currently making the rounds about a newly married young woman who complained to her mother that she couldn’t stay with her husband because of the four-letter words that he used. She cried that she had never heard such language in her parents’ house and just couldn’t be expected to put up with it. After much gentle coaxing from her mother she repeated the offensive four-letter words that so shocked her: cook, bake, wash, iron, dust!”
― Little Heathens
― Little Heathens
“I discovered, somewhat to my surprise, that I have come to view that time as a gift. Austere and challenging as it was, it built character, fed the intellect, and stirred the imagination.”
― Little Heathens
― Little Heathens
“was just another hard, dirty job to me. I could’ve been digging another foxhole for all the emotion I felt. In”
― Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu
― Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu
“Nimitz turned for support to Admiral Ernest King, chief of naval operations, and they both advised MacArthur to forget his Rabaul campaign and relieve the First Marine Division “as soon as practicable.” In”
― Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu
― Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu
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