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Battle Casualty
Being one of the mild cases, I was sent back to duty with a heavy bandage over
the damaged eye and strict orders to keep it warm and dry. They left me to figure out the
minor details, like how this could be accomplished.
No one suggested giving me a Purple Heart, nor did it occur to me to ask. The
Purple Heart is a decoration given for battle wounds or injuries sustained "as a result of
enemy action." And when I thought it over later, had it not been for enemy action, the
anti-decapitator would not have been there. And to take it a step farther, neither would I!
However, I still have my eyesight, and I suppose that's enough.
[Note: Years later, when stationed at Metz, I managed to drive up into
Luxembourg and locate the big, important, five-point road intersection that we had
concentrated on for so long.
What a come-down! Five insignificant narrow trails wandered in from the woods
to meet at one spot. They looked like those described in Robert Frost's poem "The Road
Not Taken."
I think it was Col Sutton who commented, "These people have had two thousand
years with nothing to do but build roads, and they have just wasted their time.”]
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