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Citation 20 refers to this part: "This is in contrast to his earlier description of mixed feelings described he killed a man face to face in the Battle of Peleliu," but I checked citation 20 with With the Old Breed and it says nothing about mixed feelings for killing someone face to face, and furthermore, I don't ever remember E.B. Sledge writing about having mixed feelings for killing a Jap. Therefore, on these grounds, I dispute this part of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.247.252.201 ( talk) 00:22, 7 September 2012 (UTC) reply

Quoting Sledge, same reference, (same page numbers, 116-117, in the 1981 version and the 2010 paperback version of With the Old Breed): "...That I had seen clearly the pain on his face when my bullets hit him came as a jolt. It suddenly made the war a very personal affair. The expression on that man's face filled me with shame and then disgust for the war and all the misery it was causing. (paragraph break) My combat experience thus far made me realize that such sentiments for an enemy soldier were the maudlin meditations of a fool...feeling ashamed because I had shot a damned foe before he could throw a grenade at me!..."

How would you better state the emotions Sledge described without using the term 'mixed feelings'? Trilobitealive ( talk) 02:50, 7 September 2012 (UTC) reply

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