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re: IM feeling patriotic, I thank God I'm an American
Posted on 8/1/15 at 11:44 pm to Old Sarge
Posted on 8/1/15 at 11:44 pm to Old Sarge
Unless I am mistaken the Pacific theater one is mostly based on the book "With the Old Breed". An autobiography I might add.
It both is and is not one of the great anti-war books ever written.
Sledge, no, I kid you not, does not spare any details about just how horrible all out war is and what it reduces men too. Maggots? Yep. Someone trying to pry loose gold teeth from a still living Japanese soldier's mouth? That is in there too.
Yet at the end of all that he sums it up... "If a country is worth living in, its worth dying for." It is a very powerful book because the writer literally went to hell and back but at the end of the day he'd do it again because some wars need to be fought.
Granted... it might not make a good bedtime story for the grandkids.
It both is and is not one of the great anti-war books ever written.
Sledge, no, I kid you not, does not spare any details about just how horrible all out war is and what it reduces men too. Maggots? Yep. Someone trying to pry loose gold teeth from a still living Japanese soldier's mouth? That is in there too.
Yet at the end of all that he sums it up... "If a country is worth living in, its worth dying for." It is a very powerful book because the writer literally went to hell and back but at the end of the day he'd do it again because some wars need to be fought.
Granted... it might not make a good bedtime story for the grandkids.
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Posted on 8/1/15 at 11:53 pm to Old Sarge
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I'm asking which one?
Oh, the one in New Orleans.
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I'm just trying to find something to do other than sleep. Seems that's all I do now. Wake up, work, eat, sleep. Repeat.
Welcome to adulthood.
Posted on 8/1/15 at 11:54 pm to Arksulli
Worked with a guy when I was still in high school. In his mid 60's. He had a huge scar that started on his neck and went down to his shoulder several inches in.
He told the story of clearing out the pacific occupied islands and how a Japanese soldier had jumped out of a tree and used a machete on him. Then he raised his shirt and showed a scar on his chest and identical scar on his back where a bayonet had entered and exited. Japanese soldiers had come along after the first guy got him with the machete and bayoneted him to make sure he was dead. He said he was conscious and was playing possum and has no idea how he was able to not scream out when the bayonet went in and out.
No one ever fricked with him on the job
He told the story of clearing out the pacific occupied islands and how a Japanese soldier had jumped out of a tree and used a machete on him. Then he raised his shirt and showed a scar on his chest and identical scar on his back where a bayonet had entered and exited. Japanese soldiers had come along after the first guy got him with the machete and bayoneted him to make sure he was dead. He said he was conscious and was playing possum and has no idea how he was able to not scream out when the bayonet went in and out.
No one ever fricked with him on the job
Posted on 8/2/15 at 12:45 am to Old Sarge
Just watched the newest Mission Impossible-between this badass release and leaving scientology, Tom Cruise is hotter than Hansel right now.
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