Show PLEASE ONE by colette knipe daughter of a world war veteran in eleven oclo c k on november 11 1939 and the world pauses for a minute to look eastward in memory of and respect for those brave men who died in the world war ten seconds and an old woman recalls a tall broad shouldered boy confidently bidding her goodbye forever fifteen seconds and i a retired postman remembers the pain in the eyes of the young bride when the letter to her husband in which she told him of his impending fatherhood came back glaringly marked unclaimed twenty five seconds and the scent of the roses on the table nauseates the young man who is seeing again soggy roses on the tha muddy grave of an adored father who came back silent and cold thirty seconds and a shell shocked patient in an asylum begins to giggle stupidly happy now because once lie he was unhappy another inmate raises sightless eyes in the direction of the happy morn forty seconds and a lit little tle grey mouse runs across the barn floor and a farmer remembers the day his division found huge rats gnawing on a dead body in a deserted descried dugout dug out forty five seconds and a shoe clerks eyes rest upon rows and rows of overshoes once again he sees hundreds of men practically barefoot plodding through slime muck and mud fifty seconds and a huge truck rumbles by in the street below A pointed pain shoots through the soul of an artist as he visions beautiful landscapes desecrated by ugly lumbering tanks fifty five seconds and a woman stares bitterly at a current newspaper in her hand remembering 0 the day she fearfully looked for her husbands name on an the list of those dead or missing and found the one for which she was looking yet hoping not to find eleven one and the silence is broken the world continues on its noisy way some forget to some armistice means nothing I 1 legion auxiliary bulletin bullet i n |