By Richard Bausch
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He had fired mortar rounds into the roil and tumult of the fortifications beyond the beach, had been in the fighting all the way to Persano and the Sele River, and he knew intellectually that he had certainly killed several men. He had seen so much death, and the dead no longer caused quite the same shock. Not even poor Walberg and Hopewell. He had experienced that kind of sudden stop before now. But he hadn’t, himself, until yesterday, killed anyone up close. The Kraut had a big round boy’s face and bright red hair, and the bullet had gone into him just above the breastbone and exited with a blast of blood and flesh out the back of his neck, into the distance behind him.
The soldier hit him just for being dark skinned, swiping carelessly across his face with the barrel of the pistol. The boy described this with a smile as if it was all a very stupid joke. The soldier had been shot the next morning from the air by a strafing American plane that had a long-fanged mouth painted on the fuselage. Plenty of teeth in that mouth. Ten soldiers had died in the square from the one pass the plane made, and everybody was sure now that the Germans were through. “I will get you some good wine,” he said.
SIX JOYNER WAS FROM MICHIGAN, a sheep farm there, where his father and grandfather and great-grandfather had lived; and his father had raised him to take over, in time. The war was his escape, as he had told anyone who would listen in the first days they all were together. He hated the farm—hated the idea of farming—and spent much of his time in high school following the good orchestras around the upper Midwest. He played clarinet, and his father thought of him as a bum, he said, and that was a tough thing to live with sometimes.