To hell and back by Audie Murphy

Author:Audie Murphy [Murphy, Audie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Audie, 1924-1971, Murphy, 1939-1945, World War
Publisher: New York, H. Holt
Published: 1949-09-01T06:00:00+00:00

12

SPRING comes to the beachhead, and on the ruined land new green glistens in the sunlight. When the guns are quiet, we can hear the song of birds; mate calls to mate, their voices swelling uncertainly.

Near the command post a cherry tree bursts into bloom. The leaf buds swell; the petals sift to the ground; and one day the hard, green fruit hangs upon the branches.

Kerrigan is touched by the sight and composes a new song to express his feelings.

We Vie got cherries on Anzio; Cherries, yes; hut women, no. Don't ask me how, hut it sure is so. That's the hell with Anzio.

Brandon frowns upon the song. He studies the tree with a thoughtful eye and talks of April in Kentucky. His daughter, who has just turned ten, wants to cut off her pigtails. It is a problem that concerns us deeply. Through the months of ruin and despair, the little girl with her braids and freckles has served to remind us that somewhere on the earth utter innocence still exists. But if those pigtails go, what then? We group around Brandon while he reads her letter aloud.

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