withtheoldbreed: (all but my life)
E. B. Sledge ([personal profile] withtheoldbreed) wrote in [personal profile] moon_in_her_hair 2015-02-10 10:57 pm (UTC)

No, miss. We were at war, most guys my age were enlisting in somethin'.

[He's still smiling, but there's something kind of sad about it now. Not quite wistful, but not bitter, either.]

I wanted to join the Marines because they're the best there is.

[Which he believes. But he was a dumb kid.]

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