Eugene Sledge
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Eugene Sledge (4 de novembro de 1923 — 3 de março de 2001) foi um fuzileiro naval, professor de universidade e escritor norte americano.
- Enquanto eu passeava pelas ruas de Mobile, a vida civil parecia tão estranha. As pessoas corriam apressadas para coisas aparentemente insignificantes. Poucos pareciam perceber o quanto abençoados eles eram por serem livres e intocados pelos horrores da guerra. Para eles, um veterano era um veterano – todos eram iguais, quer um homem tivesse sobrevivido ao combate mais mortal ou outro tivesse batido em uma máquina de escrever enquanto estava de uniforme.
- - As I strolled the streets of Mobile, civilian life seemed so strange. People rushed around in a hurry about seemingly insignificant things. Few seemed to realize how blessed they were to be free and untouched by the horrors of war. To them, a veteran was a veteran—all were the same, whether one man had survived the deadliest combat or another had pounded a typewriter while in uniform.
- - Fonte: como citado in: China Marine - An Infantryman's Life After World War II, Por E. B. Sledge· OUP USA, 2003, ISBN: 9780195167764, 0195167767
- - As I strolled the streets of Mobile, civilian life seemed so strange. People rushed around in a hurry about seemingly insignificant things. Few seemed to realize how blessed they were to be free and untouched by the horrors of war. To them, a veteran was a veteran—all were the same, whether one man had survived the deadliest combat or another had pounded a typewriter while in uniform.