Book meme came around again...

From Gun Toting Seagull. What the hey, there is a different book on my table:

Go to page 56, fifth sentence and the next 2 to 5.

"San Antone," muttered a Texan. "Imagine, only four, maybe three days for a battle star. Hell I can put up with anything for longer than that."

He reflected the feelings of most of us, and we were encouraged by the commanding general's confirming the oft-repeated "rough but fast" rumors we had been hearing. We kept trying to convince ourselves that the CG knew what he was talking about. We all dreaded a a long, protracted campaign that would drag on beyond endurance like Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester.