[This post first ran in July but, reading it over recently, I felt E.B. Sledge's thoughts were particularly pertinent again, as close-combat wars continue to proliferate. See if you agree.]
E.B. Sledge was a Marine mortarman on Peleliu and Okinawa in WWII. His first-person memoir, With The Old Breed (which he reconstructed from notes scribbled in
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Published on November 21, 2011 05:05