Dated September 2, 2009:

After his brief trip back home to Huntington with Jane Bennet in the second Homeplot, Lipton finally tells someone the truth about his marriage, and Malarkey doesn't quite know what to say.

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We've all heard of the adage that it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all. It's one of those concepts that's so fundamentally part of the human psyche that I don't doubt it's invoked everywhere, even on other planets and in other dimensions. It's one of those things we say to make ourselves feel better about how crappy ( Read more... )

He was doomed, or cursed, to lose his friends like that, Don thought bleakly as he stared at the room he had shared with Buck since his arrival.

God, it was Bastogne all over again, wasn’t it? In Austria, he thought it was all over, he was done having his heart torn out like that. But then he’d be brought here, and for what? So he would live ( Read more... )

It isn't the same ( Read more... )

Chuck's not too proud to admit that the amount of people disappearing from the homestead is becoming frightening. Bill’s disappearance was downright upsetting, but with Cain gone now too, there's an air about the homestead that Chuck thinks nobody can really ignore ( Read more... )

I had found the book months ago, but I'd yet to crack open the yellow-tinged pages of it in order to read the information inside. It had been like a Christmas gift from a morbid donor, some hint at what my future days might hold in terms of ambition and drive. And no, this is not my war memoir, but rather my true passion before me. I've started the ( Read more... )

There'd been a time, longer ago now than she could really consider, that by the time she turned twenty, Lucy was meant to be a engaged to a handsome soldier, a scholarship student at a prestigious college, living the kind of life that girls were supposed to dream of. That had changed, of course, before she'd gotten any of it; in retrospect, she ( Read more... )

Carwood Lipton was unsettled.
He eyed the bookshelf, and the variety of titles displayed, and his mouth set in a thin line of irritation.

It wasn’t so much that the bookcase was eager to provide him with titles like United States Army Logistics: The Normandy Invasion, 1944 and Manufacturing Systems Engineering: A Unified Approach to Manufacturing ( Read more... )

Word don't take long to travel, and Babe's heard - Babe's heard enough, and he don't wanna hear any more. This is impossible, of course, but maybe if he stays in the rec room and looks at issues of magazines from 1986 with their Lincoln town cars, he won't have to think about it. Every time he does, his stomach ties in knots and he feels sick ( Read more... )

May 1945.

Zell am See, Austria.

«So it’s an Airborne exhibition. They have one of every allied combat plane that got used in the war. You’d be like a technical advisor, make sure they get everything right.»

Paris. Don Malarkey remembered another time when he had dreamed of Paris. Seemed like ages ago, now, didn’t it? In reality, it had ( Read more... )