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Show 177 he felt like he could kill anything, just point him, but Japs just seemed like another thing out there, a lot of bangs and booms, Marines came back dead, Japs came back dead, letters got sent home, xxxxxixkixxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxK your kid's dead, your husband's dead. He xx wrote Helen about it and she wrote back, "Don't jf worry about it, just don't end up dead. You start thinking about things and just end up frustrated and mad. Then you'll go out and try to xxa kill somebody and that's how you end up dead." Dead, thought Red, what was dead. "I can't tell you," wrote back xxxiaxxxSkxxiax Chaplain Captain Chaplain. "We are ants now. God only watches. Great powers battle. You are small. Pray." Helen was right. That just made Red want to fight. "Who's going to be in reserve if the reserves fight?" his xxxx commanding officer asked him. "I don't care," said Red. "I could use a nice wooden locker if you can find the time," said the officer. Red played horse shoes. Then one night xkxxxkaxxxxx&xxxxixg he dreamt that Helen came to visit him in the tent. She told him she was going to have a baby and then she had the baby and gave it to Red and it looked like a Japanese Guy Lombardo. "Merry New Year," it said to Red. , "It's Happy New Years," said Red. He got up to open the doors and let out all the old bad air and let in all the xi new good air. Helen £ grew a lump on her head that smiled at Red. "Forget it," it said. That dream gave Red the shivers. He could hardly get back to sleep. The next day Red got a xx letter from Helen and she told him she was several months pregnant. "Whatever you do," wrote Red. xBaaxtxaaii "If it's a boy, don't call him Jarvis." |