Japan has surrendered - World War 2 is over. Eugene Sledge and Bob Leckie return home and now have to resume their lives after the unforgettable, character-changing events of the last four years. For some, this is not that easy: it will be a long road back.
After the gritty, graphic, death-and-destruction-filled battle scenes of the last few episodes, an episode with no action at all but one that is entirely essential to the series. We see Sledge and Leckie come home and how they, and veterans in general, need to adjust to fit back into civilian life.
The personal struggles are endless and are not something us that haven't been a soldier in wartime can relate to: how do you go from being a merciless killing machine to average peaceful citizen, how do you move on from what you've seen and done, how do you relate to people who weren't there, what to do now?
It's all quite powerful and emotional and makes for a superb ending to an excellent series.
After the gritty, graphic, death-and-destruction-filled battle scenes of the last few episodes, an episode with no action at all but one that is entirely essential to the series. We see Sledge and Leckie come home and how they, and veterans in general, need to adjust to fit back into civilian life.
The personal struggles are endless and are not something us that haven't been a soldier in wartime can relate to: how do you go from being a merciless killing machine to average peaceful citizen, how do you move on from what you've seen and done, how do you relate to people who weren't there, what to do now?
It's all quite powerful and emotional and makes for a superb ending to an excellent series.