"I wish I could describe the forethought, the preparation, the disciplined co-operation, the improvisation and the endless work of brain and hands which have made it possible for so large an army to live, to work, and to fight its way forward so far from home. . . .Work, the interlocking labor of millions of men, is the means by which the American power, with the infantry and airmen out front breaking open holes for it, is advancing into Germany. In this war it is not true that some men fight and other men work. The soldier works all the time, and then he fights that he may gain new ground to work farther on. The work of the army never stops. . . .
Walter Lippmann, New York Herald Tribune (December 27, 1944)
"No one is complaining that the people at home are denying to the army what it needs. There is, on the contrary, a universal conviction that the American Army is the best fed, best clothed, best equipped, and the best provided with medical care, of any army in history."
Walter Lippmann, New York Herald Tribune (December 28, 1944)
"For in this struggle of life and death, where some men give their lives and all give a part of their youth and of their happiness and their hopes, there is no reward except the honor and glory of being part of a great enterprise that will always be remembered and celebrated gratefully. There can be no inducement and no repayment except the honor of belonging to an army which has done so well its duty that it will be forever famous in the history of the world.
"Medals and ribbons for the specially brave and efficient, provision for all the soldiers when they return, are necessary. But they are not sufficient. Nothing can be sufficient except the feeling now while they are working and fighting, and later when they return, that what they are doing will be understood, will have been realized, and will have become part of the heritage of their people, of the legends and the history of America."
Walter Lippmann, New York Herald Tribune (December 28, 1944)