| Show BILL J JOMES IS a DEAD bill jones jams had just gm graduated learn from agricultural college he was ambitious to put into action all 11 he had learned about t conservation of soil better breedi breeding 9 of soll soil better breeding of cattle rotating retailing crops crop bemuse because his dads dad s farm woo was in pretty bad shape W when him the war came me bill eni enlisted enil l I 1 in the army anny bill went to th the philippines and the little town where share e he was bil isted was me overrun over r run ra by a horde of japs bill ought fough t as long as an he could and then under orders surrendered they tied his hands ends it beh behind d him and a jap a soldier st started ried to tape rape a white woman he had torn hien her blouse off when bill kicked junt him in the belly end and three a japs waiting Z thew their turn reacted rammed their bayonets into bills guts thu this be happened p peard about the tune time you v ere telling the folks at your yaw house home that it was all 11 darned nonsense 0 can a to k ration arto sugar because ca cake e and nd ra candy were certainly no a dis diet tor far soldiers bill jones us dead he was a soda ends I 1 jerker in a small P town wit and when the bonds bands blares blare and the sags flags flatterer he signed up for the navy they put him on 11 a torpedo boat if he a I 1 learned ried to in wear car his hat on the comer anmer of f his head and to roll mu when a walked then his boat g got at into a scrap down in the south seen seas bill stood by his bis gun guir and ad 1 laughed u shed when he fired it but a shell hit the deck beside bill when he tried to pull himself to his feet he h u saw that his right art arm was in th the e ac sc upp uppers ere five feet away he reached for his gun with his left head hand and then all went black the list of the ship rolled called a dea dead ol 01 sailor into the sc uppers where his dismembered dismember edlay arm lay its extended thumb touched the UP tip of his nos nose so that in death as in life bill was thumbing h his nose as at the jap ship that got him this was the same day you were raising ing hell because became they were rationing b aning gan gasoline and for tear fear you t drive up to the lake to go fishing every weekend week end this mer you hid frair four cans of gas gasoline oline I 1 in your garage bill joe jones it is dead bill bills dad t had ad a I 1 of lot of money momey and when B bill III w wanted led his own pla plane dad bought it for far h him bill was a wild de devil driving a car out of ell all reason and ad flying I a plane the sam me we way but he was the first man to respond to th the a am air corps call for fliers bill got into a dog fight over the g english channel there were sue am german planes but with a tallyho bill dived MW into the bunch of them he got two before a 8 third sent a burst bunt ol of bullets into his back bach that almost at cut hun hat in halt but lie he held onto the stick until it he rammed the fourth plane and went down with it locked in the flaming embrace of death this thin happened about the tune time you yent were bellyaching and feeling abbs ed because became of the outrageous treatment seven given you by the tire ties rationing board boa rd which would not allow you recaps for your yaw pleasure car 33 bill al jones as dead bill w was a boy who had inclinations U far or the in ministry in antry but when the lyd call 11 c came ans bill laid ulde aside his bible and joined the marine corps bill wast much fun aresi around ond the blanket where they were shooting craps and ad he so I 1 hot a t at the beer beef drin drinking king contests coatse IS I 1 in n the jukes jokes but he so earned ed his sergeants stripes before zy they sent seat his gang ashore in one of those these new boats which through the an surf rf athe fistful of fighting tools fools chore ed d a machine gun nest and bill had just taken careful aim and let a hand grenade when another machine gun caught him pow four in head but a marine has four speeds speed forward and no reverse and bill fell toward the h enemy Y that was the a afternoon ft 0 n when you on were sitting bitting in the golf club with th a highball in your hand telling the other three falows in your foursome four nome that if income taxes were n not t reduced they were going to kill initiative in thin thia country bill jones us dead ball ball was w a football pritpal and had 9 good d prospects as a 8 professional ni coach at a small mail college then cona came pearl harbor bill used need some football language and headed for sign up with the parachute troops lie he did au an right bill got action it in an air raid in enemy sury country he hit the ground mth in dozen of his paz pals and re raced iviah doz to by where th their machine guns gum and grenades had lat landed tied near them ful fill ly equipped they made tor far a near car by farmhouse from which both bullets were spraying like water from a garden hose six of those thess machine gun bullets fairly c cut at bills legs off but li he r iyih lay on his belly in the mud and go got t two hernot bill bills last wor words de were of an all th the e dam loo fool luck that was the time you were tell ing the boys bay at the po poker ker 9 game nine that the union racketeers and the munitions manufacturers manufacture were making far fortunes times out ot of this thin war when we had a no business getting into it in the first pa place ee bill was an uneducated clam claim dig ger on the new england coasts coast but bt tie he knew about boats he had only one a eye and ad the uniformed ranks looks take him so he shipped orn on a tanker his bus ship was wait bringing oil mi up the coast when a german pig boat beat came up out t of the file alime and sent a torpedo 0 in to the hull amidships the buirst into nonce flames and bill went over the side into the bur burning niall oil 11 when en he came to the murfa surface ce a in machine a g gun un wo was practicing on the bobbing bobbin 11 heads ends when the bullets hit ut bills it head ead it burst burnt OP open like is a dropped copped egg his charred bullet ridded kidded body sang beneath the surface that was wait the night you were telling the folks at your party that th at this war is being run by a lot of old anum women cwashington rW in washington ashington the most mis am managed mess ments you ever heard of bill jones is dead when god in his infinite kindness meets bill jones at He heavens avena gate he to is going to say well done thou good and faithful I 1 ifal sur servant what hat he is going to say to you alws god alone knows |
