The Wife Who Waved Until She Thought I Couldn't See
From the last car of the troop train I watched my wife wave until she thought I couldn't see her anymore. Then she turne...
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You're Early, Soldier - Nobody Knew What Was in My Duffel
I came home from the war three weeks ahead of my letter, and went up my own stairs in my uniform.
My wife pulled our quilt to her chin.
The foreman of the only plant in town stayed right where he was, on my pillow, and said, "You're early, soldier."
He signed my father's pay.
He signed the paper that kept my sister's husband out of the Pacific.
He smiled because he knew all that.
He didn't know what was in my duffel.
It was ten inches of cracked engine steel with his plant's stamp on it, out of the bomber that took four of my crew.
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