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approached Okinawa, everyone was
quiet. It was impossible to joke or
feel anything but scared for what
lay ahead.”
He was quiet for a brief time,
and I waited. When he started to
speak again, his voice quivered.
“While the fighting was going on,
your mind was only on two things:
doing your job and staying alive.
Everything seemed to happen fast
and slow at the same time. But the
hardest part came after the fighting
was over. I was assigned to help
bury the dead. Some of them were
men I’d been talking to just days
earlier.”
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