Peggy Terry and E.B. Sledge (Marine) Response

I learned from the Peggy Terry letter that she had to work in awful conditions to produce war supplies, "Tetryl was one of the ingredients and it turned us orange...some of the woman had breathing problems...The fumes...burned the nose and throat...it was difficult to breathe" (190-91). I feel bad for her because she had to make money for her family, but she was causing harm to her body because she was working in awful conditions that was bad for her health. While she was working one day, "This terrible thunderstorm came and all the lights went out. Somebody knocked a box of detonators off on the floor..." (191). It shows how scary and high risk her job was for her own safety. When her mom's mom got sick and died, she asked to take some time off and they told her no, and she did, so they fired her. It shows you how awful the industry was back then. E.B. Sledge was a marine in the Marines. He had some really rough experiences in the war, "I saw Mac take great pains to position himself and his carbine near a Japanese corpse...Mac was trying very carefully to blast his off the head of the corpse's penis. He succeeded" (201). It shows you how disgraceful some people were to others in war.  He shows some other rough experiences in the war as, "Another kid got his leg blown off" (203). There was an old woman in pain, who had some bad wounds. She asked people to shoot her because she wanted to die. Someone on Sledge's team shot her because she asked for it. It illustrates that Sledge had to go through some extremely rough experiences in war. He survived though. How is an industry allowed to stay open when they are hurting their workers' health and killing them from fumes? I even further realized how tough it is to go to war. I greatly appreciate those who go to war and pray for them because it is such a hard task in every way. You must have to be an extremely strong person and must be extremely strong mentally. Sledge was extremely strong mentally and physically. All of the people who went tow war should be praised a lot. It shows that to be an American you have to be able to support your country by supporting the people that go to war if they want to go to war or supporting the war in other ways on the home-front, like making war supplies or making donations towards the war/praying for those in the war to make sure that they are okay. These things are very necessary because we have to support our country when it is in need.