“Once in khaki suits
Gee, we looked swell
Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum.
Half a million boots went sloggin’ thru Hell,
I was the kid with the drum.”

—Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, music by Jay Gorney, words by E.Y. Harburg, 1932; quoted by Norman Mailer in The Naked and the Dead, 1948.