You want to live? Get off the beach.
Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws. And asks no omen but his country’s cause.[to the Marines, quoting Homer]
We were all sent here to kill Japs, weren’t we? So what the hell difference does it make what weapon we use? I’d use my goddamn hands if I had to.[to Mac]
We haven’t seen a Jap for two weeks now. They got smart and got the hell out of this godforsaken spot. They’re not our enemy anymore. Now our enemy is the jungle itself. The jungle and the rain.[narration]
There’s a war on. Everybody’s got to make sacrifices.[to his father]
The worst thing about treating those combat boys from the Great War wasn’t that they had had their flesh torn. It was that they had had their souls torn out.[to Eugene]
The whole game is fixed by the will of Gramps on his throne while we’re down here for what? His entertainment? That makes us chumps or God’s a sadist, and either way, I got no use for him.[to Eugene]
Sir, coming across the airfield today… I’ve never been more scared in my entire life.[Eugene Sledge]We’re all afraid. All of us. A man who isn’t scared out here is either a liar or dead.[Andrew Haldane]
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Selling US war bonds is just as important, just as lifesaving, as what you did on Guadalcanal.[to John]
Saw you reading last night.[Merriell ‘Snafu’ Shelton]My Bible?[Eugene Sledge]Writing too. Ain’t supposed to write s*** down, you know. Gives the Japs valuable intel if they find it.[Merriell ‘Snafu’ Shelton]I guess I won’t show it to them then.[Eugene Sledge]
Never run when you can walk. Never walk when you can stand. Never stand when you can sit. Never sit when you can lay down. Never lay down when you can sleep. And never pass a supply of clean water.
Never mind Europe, the Nazis, Mussolini. Hitler is not gonna be our job, not until they can’t whip him without us.