"I am the harvest of man's stupidity. I am the fruit of the holocaust. I prayed like you to survive, but look at me now. It is over for us who are dead, but you must struggle, and will carry the memories all your life. People back home will wonder why you can't forget."

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Source : Eugene B Sledge (2010). “With the Old Breed: The World War Two Pacific Classic”, p.272, Random House

Eugene B. Sledge

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“Camouflage is the most interesting of all the arts.”
“God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.”
“If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.”
“I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.”
“Choose beliefs that serve your soul - choose beliefs that serve the grander dream of who you choose to be.”
“It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.”
“I am in a lot of pain. They say it is more pain than when you have a baby but I don't know as I have not had one. It is not possible.”
“Blessed the man that hath visited `AkkÃ¡, and blessed he that hath visited the visitor of `AkkÃ¡. Blessed the one that hath drunk from the Spring of the Cow and washed in its waters, for the black-eyed damsels quaff the camphor in Paradise, which hath come from the Spring of the Cow, and from the Spring of Salvan (Siloam), and the Well of Zamzam. Well is it with him that hath drunk from these springs, and washed in their waters, for God hath forbidden the fire of hell to touch him and his body on the Day of Resurrection.”

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