Sledgehammer, Old Breed Marine Tribute
Eugene Bondurant Sledge (November 4, 1923 – March 3, 2001) I'd like to take a moment to pay respect to a man of God who served his country in World War II as a Marine in the Pacific. His name was Eugene Sledge. A True Warrior rarely comes along as someone who looks like a "macho man" a Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the real world our true warrior is usually someone we'd least expect. And such was the man Eugene Sledge, as they say, he weighed 140 pounds soaking wet. He was born frail and sickly in his youth. But he had the heart of a lion and saw some of the most horrific combat of the war and was one of the few who survived. We know of some of these amazing feats by a journal he kept in his Bible. I saw an interview with Eugene Sledge and he said, "I can't tell you how many times I repeated the 23rd Psalms and the Lord's prayer. After the war when Eugene enrolled in college, a registration clerk asked him if the