Ernie Pyle Quote

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.


Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches (ed. Touchstone, 1987)


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...

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...

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...

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...