Ernie Pyle — American Journalist born on August 03, 1900, died on April 18, 1945

Ernest Taylor Pyle was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist. As a roving correspondent for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, he earned wide acclaim for his accounts of ordinary people in rural America, and later, of ordinary American soldiers during World War II. His syndicated column ran in more than 300 newspapers nationwide... (wikipedia)

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.
War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.