Death
Pruitt was killed, along with a student pilot, during a training exercise in Tuskegee, Alabama on April 15, 1945.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West,
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)
“Hunger shall make thy modest zone
And cheat fond death of all but bone—”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)
“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)