response #3 cont...

after looking at it i wasnt quite sure if my last post was long enought so i wanted to add a littel bit more.
as were many other people, as evidence by the posts, i was very struck by the differences between Pyle and Herrs correspondences. i can remember even laught a couple of times during pyles article, for exampel, at the way he described the german prisoners of war looking out upon the allied invasion fleet. However, the only thing i remember about Herrs was cringing and even needing a little bit of a break for some comic relief. again, like many others i feel that this is indicative of the characreristic of the two wars. nobody really knew what was going on in vietnam and so this led to the fear and frustration so eloquently expressed by Herr; while in WWII the soldiers, especially by the time that Pyle was writing what we were reading, felt that there was little chance we would lose the war becuase we were taking part in a much more orgainsed war with a much clearer moral goal which led to much more relaxed/ adventuristic tone of Pyles writing. I hope that this makes sense.