How the hell did I get here without getting shot? Just lucky, I guess. It sure does feel good to be next to this cliff; the Krauts can't depress their...MG42s enough to get to me, here. Well, I guess I better start earning that big sergeant's pay the XO said that I would get. "ANY OF MY SQUAD AROUND? FORM ON ME! MOVE IT OR THE KRAUTS WILL SURE GET YOU!"That looks like Jimmy, the squad BAR man headed this way. Thank God, we'll need that BAR pretty damn soon. "Hi, Jimmy, what took you so long? Did. Eric was a better swordsman than them, and was faster than them to boot. Yet, even he had asked me to keep Stumpy -Aaron- busy as he didn’t want to face three at once.This was the same thing, only incredibly slowly, like a Bruce Lee movie that was shown in slow motion so that the viewers could tell what happened. From the time we saw them and turned to close to the time when we were in range of our launchers felt like hours. It probably wasn’t, probably less than an hour, but certainly more. There were more, of course, in Chicago, but there weren’t anywhere near as many in Belmont-Cragin and Portage Park as there seemed to be in Evanston. Everybody ordered off the menu, but Eric paid. On Eric’s recommendation she had the veal scaloppini.She, rather than his family, drove Eric home. They had a long kiss in the car, but Eric didn’t invite her up. She drove home.The car was a complication Saturday. She drove Mom to the church, and Dad drove the family car. The church, which was never. McDonald, I could not imagine how any man who had been lucky enough to win the heart of that lady could have been enough of a fool to go through a divorce from her. Either he was the world's greatest fool or she was the world's worst bitch. I later decided that he was indeed the world's greatest fool. Sylvia and I had a very good time at the school dance even though my thoughts were, for the most part, still on her mother. As I said earlier, Sylvia was nearly a carbon copy of her mother. The.