Matt Mitchell

“Lying in a foxhole sweating out an enemy artillery or mortar barrage or waiting to dash across open ground under machine-gun or artillery fire defied any concept of time.”
― Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“I think the Marine Corps has forgotten where Pavuvu is," one man said.
"I think God has forgotten where Pavuvu is," came a reply.
"God couldn't forget because he made everything."
"Then I bet he wishes he could forget he made Pavuvu.”
― Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.”
― Siegfried Sassoon

“The other veteran said "Listen, mate, everybody gets scared, and anybody says he don't is a damn liar”
― Eugene B. Sledge, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa