Snafu from The Pacific

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”Certainly. Anyone who was in K company knew of Snafu, not because they chummed around with him, but because you could hear his obnoxious voice down the whole company street on Pavuvu. He was that sort of little man who felt he had to puff himself up to be larger than his diminuative stature. No body could figure out how a fellow that short got into the Marines in the first place. If he had just went along to get along nobody would have ever poked fun at him. As it was though, he set himself up for all the jokes. Really, I think he just liked the attention, because he gave me the impression he was not bright enough to get the punchlines. On the other hand, I feel a like a sap talking ill of the dead, but people ask questions and I answer for the sake of history. The you see something like that televison Pacific show and Snafu is making short man jokes at my pal, Billy Leyden, who was a tall guy, while Snafu was short, and I nearly had a heart attack. Leyden was a rifleman, too, while Snafu was a mortarman, and we just didn't hang around the mortars. Birds of a feather and all that. One of these days something might come out about Snafu, something that might shock a lot of people, but it won't be from me. Maybe we'll all take it to our graves, and that's just as well. You follow? , Sterling G Mace”

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