But he was not really numb. When Peck rushed to the ground in Okinawa with a nervous breakdown and blasted the enemy frantically, Ham was shot to save Peck and died. Eugene beat Peck to vent his anger with heartache. But the sluggish Sheldon, the person who loves to ridicule and has the most poisonous mouth, took Eugene at this time, put the stupid Peck around his chest, and whispered to comfort him. When Peck was still a recruit, he tricked Peck into saying that there were chemical residues on the new raincoat, which tricked Peck’s new raincoat into his hands. When Peck found that the old raincoats of the bad guys exchanged for the new raincoats were full of holes. It was only then that I found out that I was fooled, and that he was still the sluggish bully. And when Ham died and Peck had a mental breakdown, he held the torn raincoat that was thrown off Peck, and he couldn't return to his senses for a long time. This detail is tearful.
And he and Eugene, they always walked together during the war. In fact, he had deep feelings for Eugene. It was him who watched Eugene grow up step by step, and watched Eugene’s growth from a naive and persistent young man who was a devout believer. War and death slowly tormented into numbness and coldness. He witnessed all the mental journeys of Eugene throughout the war. I remember that Eugene bitterly said that my dog was dead after reading the letter in the trenches. He was silent for a while, and then quietly said that I was sorry. But after all, it was the delinquent person with a terribly bad mouth. Even if it was comforting words, the sentences in his mouth were so short and unnatural even if he was sad, and the cool voice seemed to avoid something. I still remember that when he was bored and threw stones into the bloody head of the Japanese dead body, Eugene couldn't stand it, and he wanted to cut the gold teeth in the mouth of another corpse, but he stopped it in shock. He said you don’t. It should be. Eugene retorted that I saw you cut it too. Yes, he could be so numb to desecrate the corpse at will, but he could not see Eugene, a hot-blooded teenager who had just enlisted in the army, did the same. After all, he didn't want Eugene to become as numb as he was. But in the end it was the indifferent and indifferent person. He didn't make any excuses. He just made an excuse to say that the Japanese army's corpses are full of germs, so it's best not to touch it.
He also has a bright red humanity. It is only because of his cool and weak nature and accustomed to all kinds of cruel deaths that he is neither lukewarm nor cold, just like leaving.
So although he was born and died with Eugene, although he was sad in his heart, he never expressed it. In the war, some people shed tears because of fear, some shed tears because of injuries and illnesses, some shed tears because of the death of their comrades in arms, and some shed tears because of the death of the officer, but he never shed tears. The only outbreak was a big complaint and grievance that was trapped in heavy rain in Okinawa for more than two months. On the battlefield where it is so easy for everyone to agree to each other's brothers so easy to give affection, I have never seen him particularly close to anyone. He always has a certain distance from anyone. The way to express his emotions is endless ridicule and sarcasm. Speaking of military affairs, there is another sharp point. Even after the war, the lines when chatting with girls in the train carriage back to the hometown were slapped home, "Hi, this is Morrill Sheldon, would you like to go to the trunk with me and let me see your private parts?" "Unexpectedly, after being slapped with a slap in the face of the girl, she still said with a hippie smile, "It's so lively~~" Even the words of gratitude when we parted with our comrade-in-arms Xiaobu who had lived and died for several years were not serious. Not serious: "Thank you for your care, or our heads were exploded on the battlefield~~"
But it is such an unreliable and unreliable person, Sheldon. When the train arrived at his hometown in New Orleans in the middle of the night, he did not wake up sleeping Eugene to bid him farewell, but cast his eyes down and stared deeply at Eugene's sleep. Yan, silent. After a long while, he turned his head and got out of the car. After walking a few steps, he stopped again. There were expressions of loneliness, struggle, and reluctance on his face that I could not understand, but he did not look back after all. Instead, he got out of the car and got into the crowd.
After going there for a long time, he had not had any contact with any of his comrades in the year for 35 years until he saw Eugene's war memoirs when he was old, and he was still the cold and shabby man. But it was this delinquent who, at the time of death, was carried by Eugene, his comrade-in-arms, who had been separated for nearly half a century, as his pal caretaker.
In fact, the people who have lived so indifferently and indifferently for so many years, know him the most and get along well with him. Understand his original intention, understand his nature, understand what is hidden behind the indifferent sarcasm.
Morrill Sheldon, the "bad guy", he is like a nut, only when he opens the terrifying hard shell, he will find the soft fruit that hides the endless aftertaste.
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