“ONE DAY IN MY LIFE”
by
(Sgt) Lowell Sell (submitted by Paul Sell)
Have you ever heard the longing mournful howl of the wolf or the lonesome cry of a loon down along the lake shore late at night? Well, I was listening somberly to the slow-wailing, nearly monotone whistle of a creeping, shaking troop train, some place in France, one day when World War II was raging. It was a lonesome sound and I was thinking of home–far away in Ohio. The sound of the whistle echoed and reechoed along the hills, valleys and villages as we passed through them slowly. It was blown for a warning to those along the tracks, but little did we realize the danger that was before us, or we too, would have reacted to this cry of warning! Keep reading…
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