“Go back, go back, you silly bastards. This ain't our kind of war. This one is for the birds.”

—  Bill Downs

Speaking about the Korean War to Murrow when Murrow arrived in Tokyo, as quoted in A.M. Sperber's Murrow: His Life and Times.

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