Mmm, spending federal holidays at work.

[newredshoes]

Okay, cats and kids, it's going to be one of those Mondays. It's been about a month since the last drabble request, and I'd like to make good on actually answering all my prompts this year. So

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[newredshoes]

5) Then Joe came back to America, tired, hungry, huddled, poor, Lady Liberty looming in the harbor fog, and Joe with nothing but the war on his back, never thinking he'd do this, coming west, coming back, coming home.

4) The smell of the Austrian dirt in their diamond keys into a thousand things, and he doesn't want to touch them, he just wants that ball to land in his glove.

3) His frozen limbs remember sunlight better than he'd anticipated.

2) They go back to England on boats, and he watches the waves and those beachheads back there named for landlocked states.

1) These boys are his boys, and they will be Toccoa men so long as he gets to live.

[foofighter0234]

Beautiful.

[tricksterquinn]

Ok that made me tear up something awful. Jeeez, Joe.