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Title: guess i'm out of step
Review: i suppose it's possible that men of the 442nd spoke as the characters in the book, but i just can't quite picture it. i wasn't in the 442nd, or in WWII, but i did serve in Marine infantry in Vietnam, and these characters just don't ring true with me. infantrymen are tired, tense, sore, filthy, and smell bad. they're thirsty and sometimes hungry. they usually don't have time to be afraid, even when the fecal matter hits the fan. nobody i ever heard (before arriving in the Nam) wondered (aloud, at least) how they would perform in combat. when they don't like one another it's usually a lot more direct.
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