“Down from Bloody Ridge Too Late. He’s Finished - Washed Up - Gone”

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2000 YARD STARE - TOM LEA
“Down from Bloody Ridge Too Late. He’s Finished - Washed Up - Gone”
“As we passed sick bay, still in the shell hole, it was crowded with wounded, and somehow hushed in the evening light. I noticed a tattered Marine standing quietly by a corpsman, staring stiffly at nothing. His mind had crumbled in battle, his jaw hung, and his eyes were like two black empty holes in his head. Down by the beach again, we walked silently as we passed the long line of dead Marines under the tarpaulins.”