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Larry LeSueur Quotes

1909–2003

Larry LeSueur (June 10, 1909 – February 5, 2003), born Laurence Edward LeSueur, was a well-known war correspondent during World War II. He worked closely with Edward R.

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Paris is the happiest city in the world tonight. All Paris is dancing in the streets.

When I graduated, work was still hard to come by, and the nice bosses at Macy's took me on full time.

The words of the great French anthem rang out over the town square, sung for the first time by liberated Frenchmen in the free capital of Normandy and sung with such a feeling of life and warmth as has not been heard in France for four years.

I watched the living soldiers pass by the dead at the roadside without a glance, and the dead scarcely looked human. They resembled wax mannequins thrown from a show window, lying about in grotesque, inhuman postures, arms pointing toward the sky, legs frozen as though they were running. Their faces were bloodless, waxy white.

Twelve Months That Changed the World (1943)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Larry LeSueur (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.