Georgia Tech Song and Sledge letter to mother, 8-18-1943
Eugene B. Sledge wrote this letter to his mother while he was in the V-12 officer training program at Georgia Tech in 1943. In it he includes a song many of the Marine candidates had written to sum up their feelings about being safe in college while others were doing the fighting in World War II. Sl...
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| Summary: | Eugene B. Sledge wrote this letter to his mother while he was in the V-12 officer training program at Georgia Tech in 1943. In it he includes a song many of the Marine candidates had written to sum up their feelings about being safe in college while others were doing the fighting in World War II. Sledge, along with half of the candidates in the V-12 program, would later purposely flunk so that he could enter combat as an enlisted Marine. After sharing the song and his feelings about being in college, Sledge spent the rest of the letter speaking about student life and his desire for some of his mom's homemade chocolate candy. |
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