Meeting Margaret, Chapter 2

“Nikolaus, please don’t leave, don’t go away now,” Margaret cried, wrapping her arms around him. “Margie, it is for our country, it is for Germany, it is for the Fatherland. Otherwise they will come and take our land, they will take away everything that we know.” “But I want you with me, I will be left alone,” she pleaded. “Kneel down,” he said. “Feel this,” he put his hands on the earth. “This is our land, this is ours.  If we let the British and the Russians, and the Americans win, this will be gone. Be brave, Margie, for our…

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Truth Shall Fade and Freedom Fly

“Art shall fall and Learning die, Truth shall fade and Freedom fly, Hate shall rise, Wrong and Lies, Love shall leave him, so shall I.” This is from a poem by G.K. Chesterton entitled, “Fire, Famine and Slaughter.” I’m not sure about the original interpretation of it and what G.K. Chesterton meant by the poem, I wasn’t able to find anything conclusive. It reminds me, however, what happens to humanity when we are so overcome with the feeling of “winning the war” and conquering our enemy. This is what war does to us, sadly. War appeals to our  base instinct,…

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Meeting Margaret, Chapter 1

It was dark. He stumbled and fell to his knees—throwing his hand to the ground to steady himself—and felt flesh. His hand was wet. He raised his hand to his nose. It was blood. He stood up and ran. It didn’t matter where, even across enemy lines, just far away from the unnamed body he touched. But he made it back to familiar grounds. “Lee, we thought you were gone,” a dirty and bloodied man said. “I know, I thought I was gone too,” Lee said weakly. “You don’t look good, where are you wounded?” Ralph asked.
 “I don’t think…

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