Story from the Silence

Post by **indar** » Wed Apr 04, 2018 10:22 am

Thank you both Dave and Gyppo,

I thought , Dave, of removing "record" but after Gyppo's comment I'm not certain. I mentioned the hi-fi to establish a time-frame. That was what we called it in the 50s--pre-stereo.

I suppose, as Gyppo suggests, there are those of us who are almost just now getting a perspective on that war and the effects it had on our parents who had to maintain their "greatest generation/hero/ patriot status and suffer in silence.

Tragopandemonium · Post by **Tragopandemonium** » Fri Apr 06, 2018 10:18 am

Oh this was fantastic...

The story flows at an easy, engaging pace, the details are varied and vivid.
The payoff comes at the end - the last line gave me goosebumps.
Not to crudely unpack your elegant work, but what a way to sum up the youth and inexperience of those boys, the patched-together randomness of the experience of going to war - persisting in spite of years of experience...

Gorgeous.

Post by **indar** » Sat Apr 07, 2018 9:02 am

the patched-together randomness of the experience of going to war - persisting in spite of years of experience...

Indeed. Thank you Trago, for the read and kind comments

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