“This place is hell. They herd you around like cattle; they order you around like dogs; they work you like horses; and they feed you like hogs.”

—  James Jones

Letter after joining the Army (1939), quoted by Peggy Noonan in "From 'Eternity' to Here" in The Wall Street Journal (25 May 2006) http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110008422

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