"Go back, go back, you silly bastards. This ain't our kind of war. This one is for the birds."
— Bill Downs

January 1, 1970

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Speaking about the Korean War to Murrow when Murrow arrived in Tokyo, as quoted in A.M. Sperber's Murrow: His Life and Times.