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Sirs: Recently I read a description of the battle of Iwo Jima. There still remains that depressing journalistic tradition of comparative analysis: "the bloodiest battle of the war," "toughest fight in Marine history," etc. . . . A battle is each man's personal hell. It is fought personally, felt intimately, and death is the individual's own contribution to a not so satisfying ideal. Surely the aggregate of all that horror is no more than the sum of each man's suffering, and the total can never be measured comparatively except by the individual who fights...
When Gresham (Ore.) citizens started an "Oregon Property Owners' Protective League, Inc.," Ritchie and a friend named A. E. McCroskey dropped in to help. The name was soon changed to Japanese Exclusion League. Said Organizer Ritchie, "Oregon Property Owners' Protective League, Inc. is a hell of a long name to sign on a receipt." The League charged $10 initiation fees, $1 a month dues. Soon it had hundreds of paying members...
...slim, big-chested Patton, hero-worshiping Americans had a candidate to fit the mass idea of what a Hero General should be-the colorful swashbuckler, the wild-riding charger, the hell-for-leather Man of Action, above all the Winner...
Patton: What the hell are you-a theologian or an officer of the U.S. Third Army? I want that prayer...
...Wrote Pfc. Felix J. Murphy Jr. of Bellaire, L.I.: "It still does not seem possible that so much hell could have been all in one place. Someone's prayers were answered, also mine, because I came out. . . . I don't really think I was afraid to die, but I was afraid of something. . . . I felt that when God wanted me he would take me, so I just kept on praying...