Says a U. S. officer: "We zapped the enemy, now we intend to stick around. […]

1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot,[…], published 1717, OCLC 43265629:

Anyone was welcome to ride. And as the train rolled along the backwoods section it picked up countless non-paying passengers from among vacationists and boys from camps.

There are two routes to get there. We're in a rush so we'll take the shorter one.