Eugene Sledge Quote

I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.

With the Old Breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa (ed. Oxford University Press, USA, 1981) - ISBN: 9780195067149