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...along with the 24th and other divisions, the ist Cavalry went ashore on Leyte. Their new commander, Major General Verne D. Mudge, in the best tradition of Bull Swift, alerted his men against surprise Jap paratroop attacks with the stern words: "The best goddam way for a Jap to commit suicide is to land near a cavalry unit or otherwise horse around with a cavalry unit." The outfit seized Tacloban, later fought next to the veteran 32nd ("Red Arrow") in the bloody, muddy Ormoc pincers operation...
...greatest naval and air power in the world, ready to commit an army of almost 7,000,000 men to winding up in the Pacific, could handle the job alone. There could be no doubt of the outcome. Against the U.S. forces and the potential forces of its Allies stood the remnants of a Japanese navy-now little more than a task force-and an army of 4,000,000 (plus reserves and service troops) thinly spread around the stolen empire...
...bring you to a plumber and let him put a ring which will enchain your leg to mine." When he learned that his wife's $500,000 case of jewels had been stolen, he wrote cheerfully: "Think if they had stoled Gloria!" In Fort Worth he refused to commit himself on exactly where he was: ". . . In an editorial . . . they criticise me as I never know that there was a State calling Texas ... I am not obliged to know the name of all the United States states...
...commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, dust to dust. . . . Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. . . . Lord have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy...
...have sometimes carried them out on their own initiative with enthusiasm and delight. . . . I am thinking of the horrible tortures in concentration camps, of the burning of women and children in that church in southern France where the whole population was massacred, of crimes which no man ought to commit, however strong the order given to him. . . . Some share of guilt [must go to] the whole German people. We cannot entirely distinguish [them] from the Nazis...