"We learned about savagery from the Japanese ... But those sixteen-to-nineteen-year old kids we had on the Canal were fast learners ... At daybreak, a couple of our kids, bearded, dirty, skinny from hunger, slightly wounded by bayonets, clothes worn and torn, wack off three Japanese heads and jam them on poles facing the 'Jap-side' of the river ... The colonel sees heads on the poles and says, 'Jesus men, what are you doing? You're acting like animals.' A dirty, stinking young kid says, 'That's right Colonel, we are animals. We live like animals, we eat and are treated like animals–what the fuck do you expect?'." – Unknown U.S. Marine describing the mindset on Guadalcanal, 1942. #reality #ww2 #marines #stayzero #zerofoxtrot