Word: homesick
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...drifted so far from his civilian past that he had often begun to develop different thinking processes. Sometimes he had grown to hate civilians, who could buy almost anything with war-swollen wages, could even go on strike if they chose. He had also tired of battle, become bitterly homesick...
...brassy-voiced girl Japcaster called "Little Orphan Annie" goes on every after noon at four to taunt homesick sergeants with what they are missing at home. She describes herself as "your best enemy" and plays U.S. semi-classical recordings...
...Homesick, Violent, Common Men." What happened to Ernie Pyle was that the war suddenly made the kind of unimportant small people and small things he was accustomed to write about enormously important. Many a correspondent before him had written of the human side of war, but their stories were usually about the heroes and the exciting moments which briefly punctuate war's infinite boredom. Ernie Pyle did something different...
...Then there is the war of homesick, weary, funny, violent, common men who wash their socks in their helmets, complain about the food, whistle at Arab girls, or any girls for that matter, and lug themselves through as dirty a business as the world has ever seen and do it with humor and dignity and courage-and that is Ernie Pyle's war. He knows it as well as anyone and writes about it better than anyone...
Lili Marlene first became a war song when it was broadcast by a Nazi radio in Belgrade, and was picked up by the homesick soldiers of Rommel's Afrika Korps. It also spoke to the hearts of homesick British soldiers. Lili Marlene became the favorite battle song of Montgomery's Eighth Army...