withtheoldbreed: (voices of valor)
E. B. Sledge ([personal profile] withtheoldbreed) wrote 2015-05-31 06:59 pm (UTC)

Because the weather and bein' shot at wasn't enough.

[Gene finishes his off too, savoring the last couple bites and resolving to run to a supermarket and get more of this before they leave.

God, it's so strange they're here, doing this. There's something just good about this, and he's still not sure why he deserves this when people like Ack Ack and Hillbilly are dead, but... the war just feels very far away, and when he smiles at Snaf and wipes a smudge of Nutella off his lip, he looks like a totally different person from the muddy, exhausted marine he'd been on Peleliu.]


You wanna do anything while we're here?

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