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«I stood among the heaps of dead. They lay crumpled, useless, defunct. The vital force was fled. A bullet or a mortar fragment had torn a hole in these frail vessels and the substance had leaked out. The mystery of the universe had once inhabited these lolling lumps, had given each an identity, a way of walking, perhaps a social habit of address or a way with words or a knack of putting color on canvas. They had been so different, then. Now they were nothing, heaps of nothing. Can a bullet or a mortar fragment do this? Does this force, this mystery, I mean this soul--does this spill out on the ground along with the blood? No. It is somewhere, I know it.»
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«Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good.»
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Warnings for explicit war violence
Subtitles Available
The Pacific aired on March 14th 2010 on HBO.
It features the 1st Marine Division's battles in the Pacific, including Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and Okinawa, as well as John Basilone's involvement in Battle of Iwo Jima. The casualties sustained in the often overlooked Pacific Theater of World War II numbered around 36 million - about 50 percent of the war's total casualties.
Perhaps the ambiguity of good and evil in the Pacific Theater is what keeps it from being a popular discussion in regards to World War II history. Against Nazi Germany, America appeared an obvious hero, fighting against a genocidal monster who exterminated millions in concentration camps. But in Japan, the Americans sacrificed their principles they had to crush an enemy they hated.
(Inside The Pacific Theater: The World War II Horror Show History Wants To Forget - Mark Oliver)
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