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The Pacific Part 7 Watch Along (Patreon)

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2024-02-12 16:00:08
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2026-06
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This one was a hard one! I rambled a lot and this brought up a lot of thoughts.

Thanks for being here watching along with me!!! 

xx

ames

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The Pacific Part 7 Watch Along

I am sorry I rambled today! xx ames

Comments

Bubba Fett

SNAFU was no doubt an ass since they met him but in his own way he also looked after them, when he chewed him out for taking off his boots, telling them to start breaking their stuff down before the airfield, little nudges trying to teach then but be detached. I always thought the germs was a moment of reflection on himself and trying to prevent Sledge from losing himself.

Stephen Knueppel

Snafu was just saving Eugene from himself. He was already struggling with moral choices he had made and wanted to spare Eugene from that. Most islands were bypassed and left to starve. The strategy was called island hopping and the goal was only to attack the islands that were necessary to move on. MacArthur had demanded the capture of Peleliu so the airfield could support his invasion of the Philippines but then it was never used for that so the battle and all that death and suffering was for nothing. Still a proud moment in Marine Corps history for everything those men went through.

Jason Hager

From WWII veteren Eugene Sledge's autobiography...With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa “To the noncombatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement; but to those who entered the meat grinder itself, the war was a nether world of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as casualties mounted and the fighting dragged on and on. Time had no meaning; life had no meaning. The fierce struggle for survival in the abyss of Peleliu eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all." "As I looked at the stains on the coral, I recalled some of the eloquent phrases of politicians and newsmen about how "gallant" it is for a man to "shed his blood for his country," and "to give his life's blood as a sacrifice," and so on. The words seemed ridiculous. Only the flies benefited." "To be under a barrage of prolonged shelling simply magnified all the terrible physical and emotional effects of one shell. To me, artillery was an invention of Hell. The onrushing whistle and scream of the big steel package of destruction was the pinnacle of violent fury and the embodiment of pent-up evil. It was the essence of violence and of man’s inhumanity to man. I developed a passionate hatred for shells. To be killed by a bullet seemed so clean and surgical. But shells would not only tear and rip the body, they tortured one’s mind almost beyond the brink of sanity. After each shell I was wrung out, limp and exhausted." "Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it." "As we talked, I noticed a fellow mortarman sitting next to me. He held a handful of coral pebbles in his left hand. With his right hand he idly tossed them into the open skull of the Japanese machine gunner. Each time his pitch was true I heard a little splash of rainwater in the ghastly receptacle. My buddy tossed the coral chunks as casually as a boy casting pebbles into a puddle on some muddy road back home; there was nothing malicious in his action. The war had so brutalized us that it was beyond belief."

Florin Ispas

Snafu means situation normal,all fucked up

Florin Ispas

Ep 8 is about Basilone .Great ep..great,truly powerfull man he was.No wonder still today he is onored in Raritan..

John Courtright

What a tough episode! You can see Eugene changing... his humanity (and hope) is slowly being stripped away. At the beginning of the episode, it seems like he is trying to grapple with the meaning behind it all, and is told by one of the officers that it's best not to dwell on it... "any of it". He refuses to claim the bayonet of the enemy soldier he's killed as a prize and tells his fellow Marine to put another enemy soldier "out of his misery" rather than continue to torture him. He comforts his buddy who is starting to lose it and who doesn't care whether he lives or dies, "just so it's quick". However, by the end of the episode, Eugene is ready to start taking prizes from the enemy. Fortunately, in a rare moment of compassion, Snafu makes up a story and convinces Eugene not to take the Japanese soldier's gold teeth. Without using the words Snafu is, in effect, saying, "Believe me, you don't want to become like me, buddy." Dr. Sledge's words to Eugene seem to hang over the whole ugly scene, "The worst thing about treating those combat boys from the Great War wasn't that they had their flesh torn, it was that they had had their souls torn out."

Clay F

Good reaction. Liked your intro. Intense episode. Low morale. The guys with inner turmoil, as you indicated. Skipper being killed was tough.

Florin Ispas

Torn apart inocence no matter side you are..And thatt is from the start of man kind..

Florin Ispas

I live with 100 history books,movies.Mam is a cruel animal..

Florin Ispas

In that kind of hell you need man not inocence..Snafu prepared for future Its simple: kill or you will be kiled

Florin Ispas

The 8 is not a brutal one..Its kind a sweet and sad..Love story in war i might say..