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William Wharton. The WWII Collection
The WWII Collection. William Wharton
William Wharton. Birdy
Dedication
Contents
Birdy
WILLIAM WHARTON. A Midnight Clear
1. Briefing
2. The Longest Night
3. Foo Kit Lur
4. Throw Me a Why Not
5. Don’t Tell Mother
6. A Statement of Charges
1. Going to Ground
2. Denial
3. Fox Hole
4. The Warren
THE STORY I
5. A Suggestion
6. The Search
THE STORY II
7. Coming Home
THE STORY III
8. The Meeting
9. Franky’s Story
10. Going Home
11. Going to Ground
Prologue
BIRNBAUM
WILLIAMS
CORBEIL
LOGAN
SERGEANT HUNT
WATER
DOCTOR SMET
NEED A BODY CRY
D-3
SERGEANT BILLY DAN GRAY
HIDE AND SEEK
THE GALOSHES CAPER
MIKE HENNESSY
CAPTURE
FRANKLIN
SERGEANT ETHRIDGE
CROSSFIRE
COURT MARTIAL
CHAMPAGNE PARTY
RUSSIAN ROULETTE
RAPE RAP
ROLIN CLAIRMONT
A FLIGHT OF FANCY
DOWNHILL SLIDE
THE GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY
CELEBRATION
FLAME THROWERS
MASSACRE
FORT DIX, NEW JERSEY
Glossary
Also by William Wharton
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Cover
Title Page
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Vogel charges across the mat at Birdy. He fakes going into a wrestle position, then goes down for a leg drop. Birdy twists around and winds up sitting on Vogel’s head. It’s too much. I get so excited I bump my knee into the back of the guy in front of me. He has a sharp pencil in his hip pocket. The point jams into my knee and sticks there. I still have the mark; souvenir of the day Birdy beat the district champion hundred thirty-five pounder. Beat him twelve to six on points, didn’t even work up a sweat. Vogel’s so pissed he spends all season trying to make up for it. He just misses being state champion by two points; gets beaten in the final at Harrisburg.
When brought to meaning, all importance becomes small, as in death, all life seems nothing. Knowing is destroyed by thinking, not destroyed but sterilized; distilled into knowledge. Thinking, the processing of knowing to knowledge.
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