He was short, gruff, and fiery, and-indoors or out-he wore his polished helmet liner pulled down to his little eyes. The day I reported for duty, he came out of his office to shake my hand. I had been fortunate enough to develop an infantryman’s heart, which, like his feet, at first aches and swells but finally grows horny enough for him to travel the weirdest paths without feeling a thing.Ĭaptain Paul Barrett was my C.O. I had changed enough in two years not to mind the trembling of the old people, the crying of the very young, the uncertainty and fear in the eyes of the once arrogant. My mind might inform me otherwise, but there was an inertia of the spirit that told me we were flying to a new front, where we would disembark and continue our push eastward-eastward until we’d circled the globe, marching through villages along whose twisting, cobbled streets crowds of the enemy would watch us take possession of what, up till then, they’d considered their own. Along with the rest of the Ninth Army, I had been racing across Germany so swiftly during the late winter and spring that when I boarded the plane, I couldn’t believe its destination lay to the west. Urn:oclc:823689880 Scandate 20111114163732 Scanner May of 1945, only a few weeks after the fighting had ended in Europe, I was rotated back to the States, where I spent the remainder of the war with a training company at Camp Crowder, Missouri. OL74657W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 93.86 Pages 230 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0394604709 Urn:lcp:goodbyecolumbus00roth:lcpdf:c4276ca4-8195-458b-ba2c-b7b1e5ebc66b Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier goodbyecolumbus00roth Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4cn8467m Isbn 0553234080ĩ780553234084 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:31:42 Boxid IA108715 Boxid_2 CH120801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Toronto Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 38.
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