The Risks of Fatigue

Excessive physical discomfort can also eventually deaden all zest for life and for battle. The experienced soldier who has been through all this the first time knows that every man going into battle is scared. Germans and japs get just as scared as Americans in British. And he's what they're basically telling young soldiers: look, you're gonna be scared. It's fine. Everyone gets scared because they don't know how to do it. There wasn't much we could do when the Japanese torpedoed our ship. We didn't think there was too much to do at the time."