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“The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.”
Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution (1978) Foreword
Context: My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: "The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it."
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