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“I’ll start,” Freddie added. “Since your arm is hurt. I’ll tell you if I get tired.”
at the end of the day we are all just trying to survive...
“Laura, Laura, they lie to you in school. To keep the public calm.
and look who runs America these days ...those who spread this lie
“Vanilla?”
sometimes we are so clueless to the horror that awaits us
I want to be of use.
love this
and they were nearly all wearing black.
Seen a woman wearing a bloody housecoat,
Killed him dead in traitorous defense of the enemy.
nothing is black and white in war
he shook like a fallen bird.
she'll shocked
Bolsheviks—”
“Gott im Himmel,”
God in heaven...
He’d been three steps from dying.
this is all so unbelievable. I cannot believe that this happened to such young people in our world. it's so tragic and so senseless. to think that we could be headed there again is the most horrific thought I could have.
Tommy
So now there's an American, a British man, and a German.
She wasn’t sure how much time had passed
reminds me of the lotus eaters
“For evening revels,”
Is this the creepy devil guy?
“The madman.
but Death lived there too,
removed, somehow, from the world above.
“What does he want with everyone’s ghosts?”
around his cigarette. The ember made something savage of his smile.
faerie revels that end at sunrise.”
Laura’s cough had settled deep in her chest. The
it just hit me. she has the "Spanish Flu"!!!!
Influenza.”
there it is
It was Faland.
the fuck...
He pressed his tags into Winter’s flinching hand. Kate White wouldn’t do anything for a nameless German. But she had real authority. She might do something for Laura.
A man with one arm.
three women walked into the hotel, and one of them was his sister.
Could he not rid himself of sorrow without losing the rest?
and there in lies the rub
Warm fingers, a little rough with glass.
We won, screamed the people outside. Don’t they know, Laura thought, we all lost?
Yes. This. All of this.
Perhaps this was the war that would end war. Perhaps.
oh.
if only....
but less than thirty years later...
World War I deserves our attention. The hectic, violent years from 1914 to 1918 set the stage for the rest of the tumultuous twentieth century and laid the groundwork for the modern world.
I wholeheartedly agree. It is WW1 that breaks my heart.
