The other veteran said "Listen, mate, everybody gets scared, and anybody says he don't is a damn liar

Eugene B. Sledge

Tags: fear liar scared veteran

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I concluded that it was impossible for me to be killed, because God loved me. Then I told myself that God loved us all and that many would die or be ruined physically or mentally or both by the next morning and in the days following.

Eugene B. Sledge

Tags: god war

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As the sun disappeared below the horizon and its glare no longer reflected off a glassy sea, I thought of how beautiful the sunsets always were in the Pacific. They were even more beautiful than over Mobile Bay. Suddenly a thought hit me like a thunderbolt. Would I live to see the sunset tomorrow?

Eugene B. Sledge

Tags: war sea the-pacific

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I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.

Eugene B. Sledge

Tags: war goddess disgust

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Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?

Eugene B. Sledge

Tags: war dehumanize

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