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"
So
off
they
go
,
dropping
those
flag-covered
coffins
every
other
stop
or
two
.
Eighteen
or
twenty
of
em
in
all
.
Huey
said
it
went
on
all
the
way
to
Boston
,
and
there
was
weeping
and
wailing
relatives
at
every
stop
except
Ludlow
...
and
at
Ludlow
he
was
treated
to
the
sight
of
Bill
Baterman
,
who
,
he
said
,
looked
like
he
was
dead
inside
and
just
waiting
for
his
soul
to
stink
.
When
he
got
off
that
train
,
he
said
he
woke
up
that
army
fella
,
and
they
hit
some
spots
--
fifteen
or
twenty
--
and
Huey
got
drunker
than
he
had
ever
been
and
went
to
a
whore
,
which
he
'd
never
done
in
his
whole
life
,
and
woke
up
with
a
set
of
crabs
so
big
and
mean
they
gave
him
the
shivers
,
and
he
said
that
if
that
was
what
they
called
a
mystery
train
,
he
never
wanted
to
drive
no
mystery
train
again
.
"
Timmy
's
body
was
taken
up
to
the
Greenspan
Funeral
Home
on
Fern
Street
--
it
used
to
be
across
from
where
the
New
Franklin
Laundry
stands
now
--
and
two
days
later
he
was
buried
in
Pleasantview
Cemetery
with
full
military
honors
.
"
Well
,
I
tell
you
,
Louis
:
Missus
Baterman
was
dead
ten
years
then
,
along
with
the
second
child
she
tried
to
bring
into
the
world
,
and
that
had
a
lot
to
do
with
what
happened
.
A
second
child
might
have
helped
to
ease
the
pain
,
do
n't
you
think
?
A
second
child
might
have
reminded
old
Bill
that
there
's
others
that
feel
the
pain
and
have
to
be
helped
through
.
I
guess
in
that
way
,
you
're
luckier
--
having
another
child
and
all
,
I
mean
.
A
child
and
a
wife
who
are
both
alive
and
well
.
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"
According
to
the
letter
Bill
got
from
the
lieutenant
in
charge
of
his
boy
's
platoon
,
Timmy
was
shot
down
on
the
road
to
Rome
on
July
15
,
1943
.
His
body
was
shipped
home
two
days
later
,
and
it
got
to
Limestone
on
the
nineteenth
.
It
was
put
aboard
Huey
Garber
's
mystery
train
the
very
next
day
.
Most
of
the
GIs
who
got
killed
in
Europe
were
buried
in
Europe
,
but
all
of
the
boys
who
went
home
on
that
train
were
special
--
Timmy
had
died
charging
a
machine-gun
nest
,
and
he
had
won
the
Silver
Star
Posthumously
.
"
Timmy
was
buried
--
do
n't
hold
me
to
this
,
but
I
think
it
was
on
July
22
.
It
was
four
or
five
days
later
that
Marjorie
Washburn
,
who
was
the
mailwoman
in
those
days
,
saw
Timmy
walking
up
the
road
toward
York
's
Livery
Stable
.
Well
,
Margie
damn
near
drove
right
off
the
road
,
and
you
can
understand
why
.
She
went
back
to
the
post
office
,
tossed
her
leather
bag
with
all
her
undelivered
mail
still
in
it
on
George
Anderson
's
desk
,
and
told
him
she
was
going
home
and
to
bed
right
then
.
"
Margie
,
are
you
sick
?
"
George
asks
.
"
You
are
just
as
white
as
a
gull
's
wing
.
'
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"
I
've
had
the
fright
of
my
life
,
and
I
do
n't
want
to
talk
to
you
about
it
,
"
Margie
Washburn
says
.
"
I
ai
n't
going
to
talk
to
Brian
about
it
,
or
my
mom
,
or
anybody
.
When
I
get
up
to
heaven
,
if
Jesus
asks
me
to
talk
to
Him
about
it
,
maybe
I
will
.
But
I
do
n't
believe
it
.
"
And
out
she
goes
.
"
Everybody
knew
Timmy
was
dead
;
there
was
his
bituary
in
the
Bangor
Daily
News
and
the
Ellsworth
American
just
the
week
before
,
picture
and
all
,
and
half
the
town
turned
out
for
his
funeral
up
to
the
city
.
And
here
Margie
seen
him
,
walking
up
the
road
--
lurching
up
the
road
,
she
finally
told
old
George
Anderson
--
only
this
was
twenty
years
later
,
and
she
was
dying
,
and
George
told
me
it
seemed
to
him
like
she
wanted
to
tell
somebody
what
she
'd
seen
.
George
said
it
seemed
to
him
like
it
preyed
on
her
mind
,
you
know
.
"
Pale
he
was
,
she
said
,
and
dressed
in
an
old
pair
of
chino
pants
and
a
faded
flannel
hunting
shirt
,
although
it
must
have
been
ninety
degrees
in
the
shade
that
day
.
Margie
said
all
his
hair
was
sticking
up
in
the
back
.
"
His
eyes
were
like
raisins
stuck
in
bread
dough
.
I
saw
a
ghost
that
day
,
George
.
That
's
what
scared
me
so
.