It seems there's never any lack of misery in these campaigns. Having to dig up somebody else's recent grave to share it is a new one though. So is the booby-trapped mother. The use of the civilians as human shields was pretty upsetting.
interesting to see Eugene"s transition from a new guy into the experienced one on the team. The fact that they were almost shelled by their own side was apparently not that new.
Given all that rain, it seems amazing to think that any kind of paper could survive it, much less mail actually getting to people in the middle of battles. I'd like to know what it was carried in that it could repel that sort of water!
Similarly the way that they were basically sitting in their own wet latrines, and Sledge's fall onto the decomposing soldier, made me wonder how anybody avoided getting all sorts of diseases. After all how could they possibly get clean? Did they carry disinfectants with them?
The shooting of the Japanese who ran into the clearing was probably the only efficient use of ammunition I have seen yet -- usually it's just a barrage of shooting.
Not that Snafu and Sledge are particularly good friends anyway, but by the time Hamm dies it seems like there's hardly anyone left.
I can't imagine a child growing up after that kind of experience. Sledge and Snafus' reactions seem to be an inability to respond normally after everything they've seen. It's almost surprising that Eugene can't euthanize the woman he finds.
Good writing to see Eugene's words turned back on him. I wonder if that actually happened or if it was just written for that purpose.
The almost casual way the news of Hiroshima was referred to seemed anticlimactic.
Re: Part Nine [SPOILER-FREE]
interesting to see Eugene"s transition from a new guy into the experienced one on the team. The fact that they were almost shelled by their own side was apparently not that new.
Given all that rain, it seems amazing to think that any kind of paper could survive it, much less mail actually getting to people in the middle of battles. I'd like to know what it was carried in that it could repel that sort of water!
Similarly the way that they were basically sitting in their own wet latrines, and Sledge's fall onto the decomposing soldier, made me wonder how anybody avoided getting all sorts of diseases. After all how could they possibly get clean? Did they carry disinfectants with them?
The shooting of the Japanese who ran into the clearing was probably the only efficient use of ammunition I have seen yet -- usually it's just a barrage of shooting.
Not that Snafu and Sledge are particularly good friends anyway, but by the time Hamm dies it seems like there's hardly anyone left.
I can't imagine a child growing up after that kind of experience. Sledge and Snafus' reactions seem to be an inability to respond normally after everything they've seen. It's almost surprising that Eugene can't euthanize the woman he finds.
Good writing to see Eugene's words turned back on him. I wonder if that actually happened or if it was just written for that purpose.
The almost casual way the news of Hiroshima was referred to seemed anticlimactic.