European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly August 1945 first class accommodations yank the army weekly August 1945 by Len Zinberg new fellow recently came into our he was a thin Pale with a gentle hazy look about he hardly said a and when he did his voice was soft As Church the first time he came into the Day the lads As usual were beefing about the Point a Chubby sergeant from the Bronx named Tom my Carr was and what gets me is this stuff about they asked the gis before the Point system was id like to meet one i they just one they asked this t5 said everybody turned to stare at you mean they really asked you Carr his voice heavy with Awe and yes they the t5 i was in the hos Pital with a chronic Case of the gis when one night i was aroused from my sleep and i saw an Angel standing before an Angel he was an old Man All in Sharp White horns on his and a lot of Gold and Silver hash Marks on his he said to were getting up a system for releasing the do you think the first ones in should be the first out i certainly i and overseas men should be released first but and combat men should get out before any one else you How about married men let them he was writing this All Down in a Gold then he How about the older men and Guys with kids let pm the big and the tall and the Small free pm youve been a great this old Guy said and suddenly he vanished in a Cloud of Sulphur Sulphur smoke and horns you sure he was an Angel Carr the t5 Tell you the i got washed out of air cadets because i was color May be it was red he was but he talked to the t5 blinked at us Fel that How it Carr took a firm grip on his ran to the co and we got a Guy Here who was actually questioned As to what he thought would be the Best system for releasing the one of those Guys they talk about in the booklets explaining the Point impossible its the Carr i Hope to throw away this Cigar if it that enough for Good god the co leaping into hold dont let him out of sight the co grabbed a phone and called higher in a matter of Sec a Cable was sent to and by noon the next Day the t5 was on his Way to Washington in a special i understand Hes been permanently assigned to the smithsonian where he has taken his place alongside the first Model of the Tele the Wright Brothers air plane and other museum song for an old love tears Are so you once and i when love was that would be that we very aptly mentioned fools who cry when milk is would i tip my hat if we should by some other May As casual id this is you my More Lovely every and you might Haven you put on weight no tears for the experience Wise ones who would clasp love in a time of then cast aside the dead recognize an ending for an a very we Learned to strangely it happened As we Texas Joseph Paquin Julian finds q Home Julian Cornwallis walked out of the office flanked smartly to the right with precise 30inch started his two mile Road March it the end of an other Busy and successful civilian but in his came hair Topcoat and Harris Tweed was not a Happy he longed to be Back in the arriving at his parents Julian stood on the porch a minute listening to the sounds of Domestic activity he could hear his Mother and sister in the blending their voices in a stirring of what Dye do in the infantry in the Back Yard his preparing for growled commands at the family must remember to promote those Dachshund to pfc and his father to walked into the Hall and put his hat on the desk that faced the it was a very simple Bare except for a couple of wire baskets labelled in and out and a Little sign that Julian commanding the Walls of the Hall were covered with training and Over the staircase there was a Large poster map of the the room plans had various inscriptions training area 2 was the guest room and the basement was labelled infiltration As he changed into his Julian won dered what hed have the troops do that eve though he was generally satisfied with the Way the family had worked into a military they needed More the argument hed had with his father about the monthly never mind the youll always be a Sweet recruit to me Edith Allport Truax physical inspections would never have occurred in a firs class he could still father now i know you rank but dont you think youre carrying this a bit too far after in 68years his sister and Dachshund came to attention quickly when he entered the they did it very and Julian was in an unpremeditated burst of generosity he As you Well dispense with Retreat it looks very much like they All and the Dachshund broke now lets not be too Julian commanded theres a problem for the night infiltration in their faces his sister looked up with pleading eyes and but i Julian Cut her de were in a besides you As a private Are not paid to julians Mother was operations she held the rank of Julian turned to her and anything new to sergeant nothing his Mother we Fol Lowed the regular before i there was a message for you from the it seems there showing a signal corps film this evening something about trigger that is said i think ill go see give me some new then in a chastising Why didst you Tell me this sergeant you wont keep those stripes Long if such inefficiency his Mother looked in till never happen they sat Down to sister and dog sitting at the Large Kitchen while Julian sat slightly apart at the officers Plis father called Over to begging your Par if youll be away for the Hovell we manage the infiltration course All by our selves Julian thought for a i guess we can postpone the infiltration course till you May go on pass noticing the look of absolute Joy on his Sisters he care and cleaning of equip ment before you As the Days went by Julian More and More he held a standby inspection of the gigged his father for needing a shave and restricted Deborah because her skirt was too the family became responding by they had never expected they had thought julians flair for military life would pass As soon As he got used to being out of the whispered conversations in the ranks became More he wont even let me sniff a Corn Wallis would but the magazines say you should humor the Cornwallis would the magazines be damned i want to sniff at a Cornwallis retorted the Dachshund gave up on the fifth Day and went awol with a blonde after a particularly hard workout on the obstacle course in the backyard Corn Wallis decided that he could take it no he tried to Tell this to who just snarled and ordered him to fall Back into so that evening Cornwallis took he came Back in a couple of hours with a smug look of Satis when Julian questioned he re fused to explain his even the months hard labor that was his sentence did not dispel his Good one afternoon about a week later Julian was sitting on the porch planning a 20mile hike and bivouac for the troops when a boy delivered a Telegram to he read greetings from the Lydia Pinkham hotel for when he had finished Reading the Julian smiled As if he had just been promoted to in in he i must leave As soon As i can get my bags a few Days later Julian stood next to a Marble pillar and surveyed the hotel everything was in Tiptop the brass was the Baboons were All lined up in he picked a Small piece of lint from the sleeve of his pow Deblue he was proud of the with its for fitting jacket and red Stripe on the a whistle blew and Julian rushed Over to the the Bellboy and elevator operators had already formed in two Julian faced fall he the clicking of heels was ragged and his face twisted into a frown of that no Way to Start close order you men Are going to get transferred to the Kitchen if you dont watch after a Brief pause for he Drill will be held in the garage we shall also have a critique of the manner in which we handled the banquet of the daughters of the american As the platoon of bellhops marched off Down the Julian it was a satisfied belch of a Man who had found his place in the it c Stokola lament for some american women we have no issues to no great decisions to no life and death Dice to no burning Hope and in a sense no goal but to until the War is and when its we will not in the same ignorance we will go Down the same Riding Musty smelling lying stiff and patient in the summer blushing in Well preserved shame at the same joke and in the end weeping softly for the Days the work not Moore Gloria Marchisio Page 15