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...fills this room with a kind of spiritual blackness. What I sense in this room is weariness-the final weariness which men can endure while they still move, talk when they have to, or even fight again if they must. That weariness is in their faces, their bodies, their khaki clothes clotted with dust and dried sweat. This troop has been constantly rolling and fighting for eight days and nights...
...Navy officers afloat, in faded, sweat-stained khaki, will goggle at a picture published last week of a brother officer in Russia...
...Pittsburgh the American Legionnaires and the members of the Mayor's committee, with little COMMITTEE ribbons stuck in their lapels, stood about uneasily as marines from Pennsylvania spilled off the train. Also at the station, in snappy summer khaki, was Lieut. Mitchell Paige, the 1st Division's famed Congressional Medal winner, who had come home three weeks earlier. The marines spied Paige and formed a circle around...
Later on I checked up with the officer of a minesweeper which had been operating on the west side. He said: "Down there, the sea is so congested with floating bodies we can't avoid running them down. There was one woman in khaki trousers and a white polka-dot blouse, with her black hair streaming in the water. I'm afraid every time. I see that kind of a blouse, I'll think of that woman. There was another one, nude, who had drowned herself while giving birth to a baby. A small boy of four...
Nearly all wounded men brought to field and evacuation hospitals go first to "pre-ops" or "shock tents." There they lie pale and uncomplaining in the eerie, khaki shadows of a single string of overhead lights while they absorb whole blood or plasma. Blood is a miraculous strength-giver. In 20 minutes drooping eyelids lift, eyes become clear and focused. Normal color returns, and the men chat with the nurses and ask for a cigaret. Then they go on operating tables, where wounds too horrible to describe get enough patchwork to allow them to go safely to England...