- Narrator: He kept his stride. He didn't lose his sense of decency. There were times when he went hungry so that the kids would not. He was an ambassador to the children of the world. Let those who worry about his painful readjustment to civilian life remember his adjustment to war.
- Chaplain: I saw democracy overseas as it's only talked about at home. There were no foxhole penthouses for the wealthy, no restricted areas for white Christians only. Brutality is something more than a surface matter revealed by rough beards, bloodshot eyes, strong language, torn clothes, muddy bodies. Real brutality is a lack of imagination, a disregard for the rights of others, the very things we've been fighting to destroy. If there is any suspicion that returning soldiers are not fit for our civilization, I can only say it's an indictment of our civilization, not the soldiers.