tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164662116959102197.post1842842349299920782..comments2021-09-10T13:28:10.912-04:00Comments on Letters from Arthur...: Prologue...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164662116959102197.post-37721961153689751242021-09-10T13:28:10.912-04:002021-09-10T13:28:10.912-04:00Thank you for your comment!!!Thank you for your comment!!! Jesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04341552847782764780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164662116959102197.post-57842075515031591582014-09-13T17:30:53.701-04:002014-09-13T17:30:53.701-04:00Pardon my oncoming senility. The author's name...Pardon my oncoming senility. The author's name was Eugene Sledge. <br /><br />Per your epilogue, severe diarrhea goes with dysentery. Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7164662116959102197.post-44246665903827256902014-09-13T15:22:13.424-04:002014-09-13T15:22:13.424-04:00"With the Old Breed" is a wonderful firs..."With the Old Breed" is a wonderful first-person account of fighting in the Pacific, a front that was far harder on the troops than the European theater. I mention it because Arthur said nothing in the letters I read about what the fighting was like. I'm sure this was typical because of how unimaginably horrific it was. Percy Sledge, the author of "With the Old Breed", only recorded his experiences decades after the war.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.com