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To: longnshort who wrote (257151)	7/7/2008 10:49:16 PM
From: Whitebeard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794635

(g) the not very glamorous part of war. he was never bitter about it, just the way it was, but he warned me all my life to take care of my teeth.

To: longnshort who wrote (257151)	7/7/2008 11:23:17 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794635

I just finished a book called "With The Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa", by E. B. Sledge, a grunt with the Marines at some of the worst battles of the Pacific. The conditions he describes are incomprehensible to the average person who hasn't experienced them. Sleeping in mud stinking with decaying bodies for weeks on end, being shot at and most of his buddies being killed, lousy food, lousy water, land crabs crawling in and out of foxholes -- you have to read the book to understand. I'll never forget one passage where he talks about buddies who were sent home with what they called the "million dollar wound" wanting to come back to rejoin their units in combat because the effete people they encountered back home couldn't possibly understand what they went through. They felt alienated from everyone but their combat comrades. amazon.com