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Show L LLION AND PETER E to go back to Rome, to the hospital. I wa recla ifi d and r1. tn a station hospital and we serviced the Air Force at ogg1a. utI d kn th t ur utfit went as far as the Po River. JOE: The Po River? Oh, the Apennines? You were up in the Apennines? LIL: I wasn't, they were. I think Florence and that is all included in that section too. But I know that we drove through Pisa! That's the first time that I saw that leaning tow r and we drove through it, and the thing that bothered me: I didn t see any dead bodies but I saw a dead horse in there, that had been hit by shrapnel, or something, I guess. That bothered me, being a farm girl. I have to tell you this was afterward: Pete and I had four children, and our number two daughter had a fellowship to Italy through the arts, so we went over to see her once. She was over there. So she took us around, different places, and of course she spoke the language! So we went to Florence, and I knew this was outside of Florence, but she said, "Well, let's go try this town." And we went up there, and walked around, and finally, I said, "That's the place we were!" We thought it was a villa, because we were in a building there. And so we went down there- and Mary Jane went up to the young man at the counter, and he didn't know from anything (he was like a lot of young fellows: you don't know what has gone before) - and there was an older woman sitting over to the side. I can see, still, Mary Jane down on her knees, in front of her, talking to her, holding her hand, talking to her, jabbing away in Italian. She was telling her that her mother had been a nurse in the American army, and 14 |
