The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast networks of ditches three feet deep in the bare brown earth. They have rigged up a light here and there with a storage battery.
Tags: deep, soldier, new, light

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I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.
Tags: hurt, mind, long, great
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.
Tags: friends, fighting, old-friends, spring, change
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
Tags: go, long, you, alone
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.
Tags: doing, nothing, victory, simple, eyes
Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.
Tags: us, buildings, dark, shadows
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