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As I strolled the streets of Mobile, civilian life seemed so strange. People rushed around in a hurry about seemingly insignificant things. Few seemed to realize how blessed they were to be free and untouched by the horrors of war. To them, a veteran was a veteran—all were the same, whether one man
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Once an avid hunter, Sledge gave up his hobby. He found that he could not endure the thought of wounding a bird and said that killing a deer felt like shooting a cow in a pasture. His father found him weeping after a dove hunt in which Sledge had to kill a wounded dove, and in the ensuing
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Sledge married Jeanne Arceneaux in 1952 and the couple had two sons, John (born 1957) and Henry (a military historian, born 1965). He returned to Auburn in 1953, where he worked as a research assistant until 1955. That same year he graduated from API with a
144: 657:, and other courses during his long tenure there. Sledge was popular with his students, and organized field trips and collections around town. In 1989, he received an honorary degree and rank of colonel from Marion Military Institute. 604:
Lady, there was a killing war. The Marine Corps taught me how to kill Japs and try to survive. Now, if that don't fit into any academic course, I'm sorry. But some of us had to do the killing—and most of my buddies got killed or
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conversations he told his father he could no longer tolerate seeing any suffering. A key turning point in his life and career followed when his father advised him that he could substitute
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in biology from the University of Florida in 1960. He was employed by the Division of Plant Industry for the Florida State Department of Agriculture from 1959 to 1962.
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When he enrolled at Auburn University, the clerk at the Registrar's office asked him if the Marine Corps had taught him anything useful. Sledge replied:
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in Mobile in the spring of 1942. His older brother, Edward Simmons Sledge II, was born on September 10, 1920, and was commissioned as an officer in the
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as a hobby. Sledge started to assist the conservation department in its banding study efforts, the origin of his well-known passion for the science of
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republished it as a paperback edition with the full title, including the subtitle. The book discussed his postwar service in Peking (now known as
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At the urging of his wife, Sledge began to compile a memoir of his war experiences as a way to better help him cope. In 1981, he published
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In the summer of 1962, Sledge was appointed assistant professor of biology at Alabama College (now the
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after the war, he was discharged from the Marine Corps in February 1946 with the rank of
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had survived the deadliest combat or another had pounded a typewriter while in uniform.
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Once he was out of school, he was assigned duty as an enlisted man in K Company,
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China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II, by E.B. Sledge, page 135
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and in 1956 joined the Helminthological Society of Washington. He received his
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During his service, Sledge kept notes of what happened in his pocket-sized
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and worked as a research assistant. He published numerous papers on
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Eugene was a sickly child and lost two years of schooling due to
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China Marine: An Infantryman's Life after World War II
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Eugene Bondurant Sledge was born on November 4, 1923, in
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Sledge was entitled to campaign participation credit ("
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The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa
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Sledge had a hard time readjusting to civilian life:
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United States Marine Corps non-commissioned officers
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review by Bryan Hiatt for the World War II Database"
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