withtheoldbreed: (the bridge over the river kwai)
E. B. Sledge ([personal profile] withtheoldbreed) wrote 2015-06-02 12:36 am (UTC)

[And again, Gene's not sure what to say to that. He just honestly doesn't understand wanting to be dead - he's twenty one years old. He didn't graduate from college, he's never kissed a girl, or had a real job or visited or done half the things he wants to do, and he'd been staring death in the face every single day on Peleliu. He wants to get out of there, he wants to walk away from this, and giving up on that just seems so insane.

So he goes back to looking at the books, not dismissing him or anything, but just... uncomfortable and not sure what to do now.]

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