6/25 Here and there, soldiers fall and die. Even battalions perish; but the war continues. When I think of all the fights you've been in, since I was put away, I'm unspeakably envious. You were a delegate to the 1923 Revolution Congress, in Berlin, and saw the slaughter in Unter den Linden--helped nurse the wounded comrades, inside the Treptow Park barricades. Then, out in California--" She checked him, with a hand on his arm. |