End of War

He came from Ohio. Young, unsure of himself, innocent. He came to Europe as an infantryman battling his way into the heart of Germany. There he stopped being unsure of himself. He stopped when he first went into battle and heard the singing of bullets close overhead, heard the crump of the four-inch mortars and saw the Tiger tanks rumbling towards him. He grew to maturity when he killed his first German and he stopped being innocent when he bought his first woman...for a bar of chocolate. When t