“I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind.”

—  George Marshall

As quoted by Forrest C. Pogue, in "George C. Marshall: Global Commander" (1968)

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