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* TraumaButton: Sledge goes dove-hunting with his dad, but despite steeling himself as best as he could, finds holding his gun to feel ''way'' too familiar in the wrong way. He has a small breakdown because of this, but his dad is understanding and embraces him. [[Heartwarming/ThePacific His dad is very understanding and embraces him.]]
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* TraumaButton: Sledge goes dove-hunting with his dad, but despite steeling himself as best as he could, finds holding his gun to feel ''way'' too familiar in the wrong way. He has a small breakdown because of this, but his dad is understanding and embraces him. [[Heartwarming/ThePacific His his dad is very understanding and embraces him.doesn't shame him for it.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: Most of the leads have survived, and most of them even find decent success, but the war leaves some decent emotional baggage. Leckie, oddly, seems to come out of it the best, perhaps because his home life was already similar to the army's.
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* GoodParents: Sledge has pretty good parents, especially his dad, who's understood what kind of trauma Sledge is probably suffering and doesn't shame him for his trauma.
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Applying for college makes Sledge realize he didn't really learn much except how to fire mortars and kill Japanese. Defied by Leckie, who uses his army experience to write several books.
* GoodParents: Sledge has pretty good parents, especially his dad,who's understood who understands what kind of trauma Sledge is probably suffering and doesn't shame him for his trauma.how he feels.
* GoodParents: Sledge has pretty good parents, especially his dad,
* PetTheDog: Leckie's parents are pretty distant, but his mom hints that wearing his dress blues might help his chances with Vera, which it most certainly does.
* RefugeInAudacity: Leckie's MO. He gets his date with his dream girl by going to her house in his dress blues, then embarrassing her date into canceling.
** He then gets his old job back with a raise with a mix of confidence and know-how.
* RefugeInAudacity: Leckie's MO. He gets his date with his dream girl by going to her house in his dress blues, then embarrassing her date into canceling.
** He then gets his old job back with a raise with a mix of confidence and know-how.
** This is arguably the series' point. Even when war is necessary, it leaves terribly bothersome psychological burdens.
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* TraumaButton: Sledge goes dove-hunting with his dad, but breaks down in the first minute because holding the gun and walking through their territory reminds him too much of the Pacific. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming His dad is very understanding and embraces him.]]
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* TraumaButton: Sledge goes dove-hunting with his dad, but breaks down but despite steeling himself as best as he could, finds holding his gun to feel ''way'' too familiar in the first minute wrong way. He has a small breakdown because holding the gun of this, but his dad is understanding and walking through their territory reminds him too much of the Pacific. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming embraces him. [[Heartwarming/ThePacific His dad is very understanding and embraces him.]]
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Six months after the end of the war, the marines head home to America.
!!Tropes:
* TheBusCameBack: John's widow Lena comes back to meet up with his family.
* GoodParents: Sledge has pretty good parents, especially his dad, who's understood what kind of trauma Sledge is probably suffering and doesn't shame him for his trauma.
* ParentalNeglect: Of a kind. Leckie's parents have trouble showing affection. As mentioned in the Australia episode, he's one of many siblings and had an older brother who died. They seem to have retreated into acting uncaring out of emotional scarcity.
* ShellShockedVeteran: As his dad feared, Sledge is a traumatized veteran now, and has nightmares he can't handle.
** The opening interviews have Leckie's real-life wife and daughter saying that he would wake up screaming for decades afterwards.
--->"He had a very strong will, so he tried to overcome what was bothering him. But, uh, it lasted his entire life."
* TraumaButton: Sledge goes dove-hunting with his dad, but breaks down in the first minute because holding the gun and walking through their territory reminds him too much of the Pacific. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming His dad is very understanding and embraces him.]]
!!Tropes:
* TheBusCameBack: John's widow Lena comes back to meet up with his family.
* GoodParents: Sledge has pretty good parents, especially his dad, who's understood what kind of trauma Sledge is probably suffering and doesn't shame him for his trauma.
* ParentalNeglect: Of a kind. Leckie's parents have trouble showing affection. As mentioned in the Australia episode, he's one of many siblings and had an older brother who died. They seem to have retreated into acting uncaring out of emotional scarcity.
* ShellShockedVeteran: As his dad feared, Sledge is a traumatized veteran now, and has nightmares he can't handle.
** The opening interviews have Leckie's real-life wife and daughter saying that he would wake up screaming for decades afterwards.
--->"He had a very strong will, so he tried to overcome what was bothering him. But, uh, it lasted his entire life."
* TraumaButton: Sledge goes dove-hunting with his dad, but breaks down in the first minute because holding the gun and walking through their territory reminds him too much of the Pacific. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming His dad is very understanding and embraces him.]]
