While Still We Live
“Perhaps they were afraid of a city where there was no water, no light, no food; where there were graves along the public streets and bodies still buried under piles of rubble; where buildings still collapsed with a sigh as if they were glad that the mockery of their hollow walls was at last ended.
Sheila argued the point: whether the Germans were afraid of looking at the chaos they had created, or whether they were afraid of being torn apart by angry hands in dark streets.
Russell Stevens suppo...rted the latter view. “These boys aren’t squeamish over destruction,” he pointed out. “If they were, they wouldn’t have trained so enthusiastically for ‘battles of annihilation.’ The term is theirs: they invented both it and ‘total war.’ God, I hope I see the day when they learn the meaning of these phrases.”
“Sometimes I wonder—” Sheila’s voice faltered.
“Wonder what?”
“Whether any of us here will be alive...then.”
Steve said quickly, “That’s the first time you’ve said a thing like that.MoreLess
Sheila argued the point: whether the Germans were afraid of looking at the chaos they had created, or whether they were afraid of being torn apart by angry hands in dark streets.
Russell Stevens suppo...rted the latter view. “These boys aren’t squeamish over destruction,” he pointed out. “If they were, they wouldn’t have trained so enthusiastically for ‘battles of annihilation.’ The term is theirs: they invented both it and ‘total war.’ God, I hope I see the day when they learn the meaning of these phrases.”
“Sometimes I wonder—” Sheila’s voice faltered.
“Wonder what?”
“Whether any of us here will be alive...then.”
Steve said quickly, “That’s the first time you’ve said a thing like that.MoreLess
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