E.B. Sledge made an interesting point when he discussed how the people fighting in the war were regular everyday people. He explained his point by saying, “We were a bunch of scared kids who had to do a job”. This showed the way Americans were impacted by the war as it was normal people who went and changed their everyday lifestyles to go fight and possibly die in the war.
E.B. Sledge then goes on to discuss the bad parts of the war, the parts of the war such as death and hatred. When discussing the glory of the war, E.B. Sledge questions, “What the hell was glorious about it”? E.B. Sledge discussed how the war took a toll on people as they spent time in poor living conditions and lost good friends in the process. E.B. Sledge then linked the suffering of war to the hatred of the opposing countries. Sledge did so when he stated that he, “got so tired of seein’ guys get hit and banged up, the more I felt like takin’ it out of the Japanese”. Sledge then took this statement another step by claiming that the hatred that there was towards Japanese caused people to demoralize themselves and commit immoral acts. He then justified the events of war that he explained by saying, “If you’re reduced to savagery by a situation, anything’s possible”.
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