In the emergency of war our nation’s powers are unbelievable. The strength we have spread around the world is appalling even to those who make up the individual cells of that strength. I am sure that in the past two years I have heard soldiers say a thousand times, “if only we could have created all this energy for something good.” But we rise above our normal powers only in times of destruction.
Ernie Pyle, Brave Men, p.492 (1944)
Um, is it Mars yet?
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