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Top 10 Eugene B. Sledge Quotes (2024 Update)

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “If the country is good enough to live in, it’s good enough to fight for.” With privilege goes responsibility.”

1. “If the country is good enough to live in, it’s good enough to fight for.” With privilege goes responsibility.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “A man’s ability to depend on his comrades and immediate leadership is absolutely necessary.”

2. “A man’s ability to depend on his comrades and immediate leadership is absolutely necessary.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “I asked God “Why, why, why?” I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.”

3. “I asked God “Why, why, why?” I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen’s poem “Insensibility” puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.”

5. “As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen’s poem “Insensibility” puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “In writing I am fulfilling an obligation I have long felt to my comrades in the 1st Marine Division, all of whom suffered so much for our country. None came out unscathed. Many gave their lives, many their health, and some their sanity. All who survived will long remember the horror they would rather forget. But they suffered and they did their duty so a sheltered homeland can enjoy the peace that was purchased at such high cost. We owe those Marines a profound debt of gratitude.”

6. “In writing I am fulfilling an obligation I have long felt to my comrades in the 1st Marine Division, all of whom suffered so much for our country. None came out unscathed. Many gave their lives, many their health, and some their sanity. All who survived will long remember the horror they would rather forget. But they suffered and they did their duty so a sheltered homeland can enjoy the peace that was purchased at such high cost. We owe those Marines a profound debt of gratitude.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “Courage meant overcoming fear and doing one’s duty in the presence of danger, not being unafraid.”

7. “Courage meant overcoming fear and doing one’s duty in the presence of danger, not being unafraid.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could “field trip” enemy dead with such nonchalance?”

8. “Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could “field trip” enemy dead with such nonchalance?”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “Lying in a foxhole sweating out an enemy artillery or mortar barrage or waiting to dash across open ground under machine-gun or artillery fire defied any concept of time.”

10. “Lying in a foxhole sweating out an enemy artillery or mortar barrage or waiting to dash across open ground under machine-gun or artillery fire defied any concept of time.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “We were unable to understand their attitudes until we ourselves returned home and tried to comprehend people who griped because America wasn’t perfect or their coffee wasn’t hot enough or they had to stand in line and wait for a train or bus.”

12. “We were unable to understand their attitudes until we ourselves returned home and tried to comprehend people who griped because America wasn’t perfect or their coffee wasn’t hot enough or they had to stand in line and wait for a train or bus.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “I concluded that it was impossible for me to be killed, because God loved me. Then I told myself that God loved us all and that many would die or be ruined physically or mentally or both by the next morning and in the days following.”

13. “I concluded that it was impossible for me to be killed, because God loved me. Then I told myself that God loved us all and that many would die or be ruined physically or mentally or both by the next morning and in the days following.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

Eugene B. Sledge Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Eugene B. Sledge

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