"The Great Escape"
by Edward Martin III

Old Joseph never told them of his first honeymoon in Austria. He never spoke of the soldiers, the barbed wire, or of the new life shattered by German bullets. His new American family, he decided, must not carry this memory. But he could not stop the tears when the grandchildren laughed at Hogan’s Heroes.

the end

© 2004 Edward Martin III

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