i saw much of it there on okanaa, and to me, the war was insanity. Men struggled and fought and bled in an environment so degrading i believed we had been flung into hell's own cesspool sledge also describes what happens when they're out killing lots of japanese,. then the shells come in and shew up the bodies that were lying on the ground. How does one deal with that? While sledge says, i existed from moment to moment, sometimes thinking death would have been preferable. We were in the depths of the abyss, the ultimate horror of war. During the fighting around umer brogel pocket on pellaloo, i had been