Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Somewhere On Our Way: Monuments

Monuments

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“… Though there wasn’t a monument anywhere there, by the Antietam.”
“What did the crow say, in Yank, Gus?”
“Sounded like, ‘Yank, over there.'”
“And then?”
“It flew north, sort of laughing too I thought.”
“What else?”
“I think a human saw me.”
“You don’t say.”
“I do.”
“Where?”
“The New York monument … the one with the eagle on the pedestal.”
“Yes.”
“I was coming upon it and couldn’t tell there was a human on the other side.”
“What happened?”
“I think he’d been crying Reb, ‘cuz of the monument.”
“Go on.”
“The human was gathering himself, composing himself again after the cry, and he smiled and nodded a greeting.”
“Then what?”
“I nodded, continued on by, and then doubled-back after he left.”
“Did you see what might have upset him?”
“Sure did Johnny …”
 
Next Up: Part 4 on 28 June of the summer series Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb Somewhere On Our Way: Books.
 
Posted by Bryan W. Brickner

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