#eugene goes to say goodbye to that guy specifically in the brig

[freebooter4ever]

How much is Snafu really in Sledge’s books? Cause I’ve heard that the show exaggerated Sledge and Snafu’s friendship a lot and that Sledge didn’t really mention him all that much at least not as a close friend? I know this doesn’t change the show at all but I’m just curious cause the show and well fandom mostly too makes them seem like they were best friends irl??

Hmmm, well I'm definitely biased about the answer to this question, haha! Snafu isn't in E.B. Sledge's memoir too much, but neither is any one person. I think Snafu comes up the most often regularly - partially because he and Eugene were the only two in their company who stayed on the front lines almost the entire time without getting wounded, and who survived the entirety of the war - they really do seem to become codependent on one another by the end of it. But it is strictly a war friendship, I think the tv show tried to show this with Snafu leaving Eugene alone on the train. Even in China Shelton and Sledge are already going their separate ways so to speak. They're very very different people in real life - Eugene from money and education, Snafu from extreme poverty during the great depression. But they were both very smart, both crazy lucky in combat in terms of somehow not getting hit, and they both seemed determined to live till the end of it all (Snafu out of spite maybe).

The real Eugene actually calls Jay his best buddy in the memoir. They are the two closest friends of the group, but he's not mentioned nearly as much as Snafu - again probably because Snafu was just with Eugene constantly, in the foxholes, and on Okinawa and during VJ day and everything. But Eugene doesn't go in depth about any of his friends, not even Ack Ack or Haney. He tells stories and memories that let the reader infer more about the person's character beyond it. And of these little stories, Snafu definitely has the most. Also he vividly describes the physique of only three dudes with very admiring words: Haney, Ack Ack, and Snafu...lol!

#snafu #sledgefu #i guess kinda haha #i think EB Sledge also tried to write snafus accent #so sometimes even if the story doesnt have a name attached you can kinda guess #i think the story about eugene being a rich kid and still managing to impress his fellow marine #is snafu but i cant prove it of course #and personally i suspect snafu is the one who gets into trouble with alcohol in china #eugene goes to say goodbye to that guy specifically in the brig #because everyone in the company knows he and this alcoholic guy come as a matched pair #and the alcoholic guy is a veteran with the same number of points as snafu #and eugene specifically says that this guy in the brig cant go home because he is being held back due to his alcohol infractions #but anyway eugene is very careful not to give any real names about who the person is #because the alcoholic guy does some real shitty things while drunk