战争（2007）

The War S01E07

Part 15 May 17, 2021, 11:51 a.m.

Some workers left the city
for the small towns
战争开始时他们住的小镇
where they'd been living
when the war began.
其他人搬到西部和北部更大的城市找工作
Others moved north and west to
bigger cities in search of work.
在海外为自♥由♥而战的黑人老兵们
Returning black veterans, who
had fought for freedom overseas,
回来后发现自己同样要面对
found themselves facing
the same segregation
曾被抛诸脑后的种族隔离
they had left behind.
当你发现胜利的果实
It would be a matter
of disgust and distaste with you
并不属于你
when you found out
这是件令人反感和恶心的事
that the fruits of victory
were not yours.
我从不喜欢晚上去上班
I never did appreciate going
to work at night.
晚上警♥察♥会拦住你说
And the police officer would
stop you at night and say,
“嘿小子你去哪儿？”
"Hey, boy, where you going?"
你走上去回答他
And you come up to, uh,
to answer him.
约翰.格雷亚拉巴马州莫比尔
“你戴着帽子
"You got your hat on.
和白人说话时你要摘下帽子”
Take your hat off
when you talk to a white man."
诸如此类呃..
And that kind of stuff, uh...
我在铁路上工作一整夜
And I'd worked all night,
just about, at the railroad.
没有车我必须走路回家
And didn't have a car,
so I had to walk home.
我一路哭着回去
I cried all the way home.
这让人很受伤
It was, it was hurt.
约翰.格雷最终上了大学成为一名教师
John Gray eventually went
on to college, became a teacher
希德尼.菲利普斯阿♥拉♥巴马州莫比尔
在其后50年时间里是莫比尔一名受人爱戴的
and then a beloved school
principal and community leader
校长和社区领袖
for 50 years in Mobile.
凯瑟琳.菲利普斯短期当过空姐
Katharine Phillips briefly
became an airline stewardess
嫁给了一位前海军飞行员
and married a former Navy pilot.
她的弟弟希德
Her younger brother Sid,
曾在陆战1师服役期间
who had encountered
terrible suffering
遭遇可怕的伤痛
while serving with
the First Marine Division
并发誓要想办法为此做点什么
and vowed to find a way
to do something about it,
他上了医学院成为一名医生
went on to medical school
and became a doctor.
但对一个人他也无能为力
But there was one person
for whom he could do nothing.
我的朋友尤金可能是
My friend Eugene
was probably as good a friend
我这辈子最好的朋友
as I've ever had
in my whole life,
但..他无法摆脱战争
but, uh, he could not
throw off the war.
他忘不了战争
He could not forget it.
似乎挥之不去
It seemed to, uh, uh,
to haunt him.
“我在莫比尔街头溜达时
"As I
strolled the streets of Mobile,
“平民生活似乎如此陌生
"civilian life
seemed so strange.
“人们似乎为着微不足道的
"People rushed around in a hurry
“事情四处奔忙
"about seemingly
insignificant things.
“很少有人意识到拥有自♥由♥多么幸福
"Few seemed to realize how
blessed they were to be free
对战争的恐怖无动于衷”
and untouched
by the horrors of war."
“对他们来说老兵就是老兵都一样
"To them, a veteran was
a veteran: all were the same,
“不管你是在殊死战斗中幸存下来
"whether one man had survived
the deadliest combat
还是在军队里噼啪打字”
or another had pounded
a typewriter while in uniform."
尤金.斯莱奇在战前是个
Eugene Sledge had
been an enthusiastic hunter
满腔热情的猎手
before the war.
现在他发现自己对此兴味索然
Now he found he no longer
had the heart for it.
他说在战斗中他体会到跟他
In combat, he had felt the same
terror his targets felt
射击的目标同样的恐惧
when he fired at them, he said,
他无法忍♥受的是它们无法还击
and he couldn't bear it that
they could not shoot back.
恶梦折磨着他
Nightmares plagued him.
他依据退伍军人法案获得商业学位
He earned a business degree
under the G.I. Bill,
试过干保险业务又放弃了
tried the insurance business
and abandoned it,
最终成为一名生物学家和教师
eventually became a biologist
and teacher.
“科学救了我”他回忆说
"Science was my salvation,"
he remembered.
“这有助于我免受贝里琉岛和
"It helped keep at bay
the flashbacks
冲绳岛回忆的侵扰”
from Peleliu and Okinawa."
他妻子说“ 持续密切研究大自然
"Close, constant study
of nature," his wife said,
使他不至发疯”
"kept him from going mad."
但战争还是伴随着他
But the war remained
with him nonetheless.
他还保留着太平洋战争中
He still had
the tiny sheets of paper
夹在日记里的小纸片
on which he'd kept a journal
in the Pacific,
最后在妻子的催促下
and finally,
at his wife's urging,
他将之写成一本战争回忆录
he turned it into
a combat memoir called
书名是《老猎犬》
With the Old Breed.
描写自己的恐怖经历
Describing the horrors
he had endured
终于让他慢慢对战争释怀
eventually allowed him to begin
to put them behind him.
尤金.斯莱奇在2001年去世
Eugene Sledge died in 2001.
“除非千禧年到来
"Until the millennium arrives
“各个国家停止奴役其他国家
"and countries cease to enslave
others, it will be necessary
“就有必要像我的战友们那样
"to accept
one's responsibility to,
“承担对国家的责任
"and to be willing
愿意为国家作出牺牲”
to make sacrifices for, one's
country as my comrades did."
“战争野蛮、可耻、浪费惊人
"War is brutish, inglorious
and a terrible waste.
“战争给那些被迫承受它的人
"Combat leaves an indelible mark
“留下不可磨灭的印记
"on those who are forced
to endure it.
“唯一可取之处就是战友们非凡的英勇
"The only redeeming factors were
my comrades' incredible bravery
和彼此间的忠诚”
and their devotion
to each other."
尤金.斯莱奇
Eugene Sledge.
我的家乡给我英雄般的礼遇
My hometown just
gave me a hero's welcome.
对你好到不能再好
Couldn't ask for anybody
to be any nicer to you.
但你对接下来的事一无所知
But, uh, little did you know
what was ahead.
直到事情发生你都一无所知
And, uh, I didn't until it
started happening to me.
格伦.弗雷泽和他在北非和意大利
Glenn Frazier and his
brother O'Vaughn, who had served
陆军服役的兄弟奥沃恩
with the Army in North Africa
and Italy,
碰巧同一天回到阿♥拉♥巴马州迪波西特堡家中
happened to arrive home in Fort
Deposit, Alabama, the same day.
弗雷泽回忆说他们的母亲对于
Their mother, Frazier recalled,
seemed "dazed"
两个孩子同时回来似乎茫然无措
to have both her boys back,
but she remembered
但她记得给他俩每人一小堆圣诞礼包
to give each of them the little
pile of Christmas packages
那是战争期间
she'd bought and wrapped
她买♥♥来包上却没法寄给他们的礼物
but had been unable to send them
during the war.
当两个孩子走到街上
When the boys stepped out
into the street,
他们被喜出望外的
they were mobbed
by friends and neighbors
朋友和邻居包围了