Show V Experiences With Typical By B. kept their closed By B. The other afternoon while going to Biology class I opened the Immediately I saw McKay's picture and in quotations Aren't What a How long ago was it that someone you knew personally was reported killed on the Western Front by civilian Yes since VE Last war I'm told the German race was excused of all war crimes because it really wasn't the Germans but the Prussians who thought up all the war Two years ago it wasn't the Bavarians nor the but the German officers and the Now we are given to understand that there are two separate nationalities living within The crackpot Nazis and the God-fearing Germans who kept their closed eyes and their hearts pure and their ears shut to all the horrors that committed three blocks down the Though they could say with the best table is our Savior He is the noblest person in the world For Hitler we live For Hitler we die Our Hitler is our Lord Who rules a brave new world Heil The German so McKay are not dangerous and will not jeopardize the But perhaps if he had been with the infantry he would have a slightly different Our troops saw no welcome on the faces of those crushed as we went into German Their stony stares with the expressions of deepest hatred were everywhere the those good people who had had no love for the Nazi regime and had merely submitted to save they might have shown a trifle more enthusiasm don't you I refuse to believe that the stench of burning flesh and the of human bodies would escape the notice of good honest God-fearing Germans whether they were in Brandenburg or The story McKay tells of the revised version of Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf is My first contact with the Youth on the Front was too Our company was moving forward to replace the spearhead of the attack when down the hill hands held high marched a rosy-cheeked boy of about Behind him was a Yank equipped with an Ml and An experienced Dough behind me spoke up the dirty little I was shocked It was only a few hours later that death kissed me on all Then I We lived a lifetime every hour on the west especially during the time of the bulge and afterward at the crossing of the the Mosselle and the It didn't help any when we found out that some of our good neighbors at home were teaching their children to sing Christmas songs in For if we had listened we might also have heard the chanted to these words America Jewish land America You certainly conceited are A big fat that's what you are Jewish Land I went into action near the town of a Jewish enough I fought with good American boys who had come as little children out of One was from Frankfurt on the Another from near only thought was to get back to the land of their I never ask how they expected to after I saw them go into action on were not German any more but red-blooded The dream of Herm was to be an occupational officer in the town of his He said there would be no more bad Germans when he got We Americans are by and large incorrigible We much prefer to look at the bright To be just and big hearted when we leave our calling cards after the tidying up has been done But those of who were at the house the night before and tasted first put a little salt on the grave of Once we stood in awe of the German mind and German but now I can only think of them as a cancerous something whose tentacles twist and twine and choke decent |