- Capt.Bill Walker: The new kids that come up, that's what gets you. The new ones, some of them have just got a little fuzz on their faces. They don't know what its all about. Scared to death. You know, Ernie, I know it ain't my fault that they get killed, but it makes me feel like a murderer. I hate to look at 'em, the new kids.
- [Final Line]
- Ernie Pyle: (Voice-over): For those beneath the wooden crosses, there is nothing we can do, except perhaps to pause and murmur, "Thanks pal, thanks."
- Ernie Pyle: Yep. It's a world the other world will never know. Even the Air Force. Up there, they approach death differently. When they die, they're clean-shaven, well fed, if that's any comfort. But the G.I., well, he lives so miserably and he dies so miserably...
- Pvt. Robert "Wingless" Murphy: Look, this is a modern war, ain't it? And I'm a modern guy, and the modern age is up in the air, not down here.
- Pvt. Robert "Wingless" Murphy: Hey Dondaro, what town did we take today?
- Pvt. Dondaro: San Raviollio.
- Pvt. Robert "Wingless" Murphy: Didn't we take that yesterday?
- Pvt. Dondaro: No, that was San Something Else-io.
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