parts from William Manchester's Goodbye Darkness - week 6::
Continuation of week 6.. and continuing with WWII. This book is a memoir of Manchester's time in the South Pacific.I'm sorry, I don't know who Morison is but he says something good:
"The troops were all hyped up: Morison later wrote: 'Lucky indeed for America that in this theater and at that juncture she depend not on boys drafted or cajoled into fighting but on 'tough guys' who had volunteered to fight and who asked for nothing better than to come to grips with the sneaking enemy who had aroused all their primitive instincts." (171)
HA. Obviously, I love the last part (the part in bold). It's like this guys were apes just wanting to come across more manly than the others...
I have a note on pages 176 and 177: Marines used everything Japanese, food, supplies, plates, paper, bowls because they weren't getting anything from the US.
There's lots of good stuff on page 182. He talks about the "typical Marine" and what his sicknesses were and everything..
posted by Cassie @ 10:18 PM
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