tom lea Sundown on Peleliu
“SUNDOWN AT PELELIU”
“Sick Bay in a Shellhole. The Padre Read, ‘I am the resurrection and the Light’ ”
“The padre stood by with two canteens and a Bible, helping. He was deeply moved by the patient suffering and death. He looked very lonely, very close to God, as he bent over the shattered men so far from home. Corpsmen put a poncho, a shirt, a rag, anything handy, over the grey faces of the dead and carried them to a line on the beach to await the digging of graves.” Life Collection of Art WWII, U.S. Army Center of Military History, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.