Christ I got irate yesterday
You?
Irate?
Don bust my balls
Is tha a compliment
When I woke in the morningnot out of bed a minute makin it I thought Todays D-Day All my uncles six fought in it two wounded all survived
My fatherinlaw in the Pacific
My best friends father in the
Pacific Lied about his age a Marine killing
Japs at sixteen
Asked him if D-Day was carried on the
front page of the Chicago TribuneNo
He said What do you expect, son? All
those boys are dead now.
Deads not forgotten Dad
No, son, it’s not. Angiven your memory .
. . you’ll continue it in their stead.
That’s was kind of him to say.
I am
Might suppose . . .
Sppose Wha
Might suppose that’s whaya get for being a paperboy keeping the routes ten years deliveringem into your freshman year of college.
Steeped . . . in history.
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