When Peggy Terry said, "Now we'd have money to buy shoes and a dress..." it reminded me of when i got my first job. I was able to live normally before i got my job, but when i got it i was able to buy myself thinks that i desired. But, i certainly dont have a job that works with Tetryl, explosives, or detonators. i found it interesting, yet incredibally wrong that companys threatened workers that if they quit they would "blacklist" them and no other companys would hire them.
i love how E.B Sledge puts the war as two parts, "There was the war of the guys on the fronts lines... Then there was the support personnel." The men that we dont hear from are the ones in the front lines because most of them don't live to tell their stories. The men who died on the front lines were the true heros, not saying that all the other men wern't heros because they were. E.B went to war "to get it over with, so we could go back home and do what we wanted to do with our lives." nobody was their for the long run or to mess around. The way that E.B put fighting the Japanese it would seem almost impossible to be able to go back to normal life.
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