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“War is such self-defeating, organized madness the way it destroys a nation's best.”
― E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“Everything my life had been before and has been after pales in the light of that awesome moment when my amtrac started in amid a thunderous bombardment toward the flaming, smoke-shrouded beach for the assault on Peleliu.”
― E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“My facial muscles were so tensed from the strain that I actually felt it was impossible to smile. Whit a shock I realized that the faces of my squad mates and everyone around me looked mask like and unfamiliar.”
― E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“I broke out in a cold sweat as the tension mounted with the intensity of the bombardment. My stomach was tied in knots. I had a lump in my throat and swallowed only with great difficulty. My knees nearly buckled, so I clung weakly to the side of the tractor.I felt nauseated and feared my bladder would surely empty itself and reveal me to be the coward I was. But the men around me looked just about the way I felt.”
― E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“As Peleliu dragged on, I feared that if I ever lost control of myself under shell fire my mind would be shattered.”
― E.B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa