Part 6 (1/2)
Benz an looked at him
”Speak up, Joe What's on your mind?”
”I will It's not a plan; it's a disorderly retreat A year fro - and they'll be better dug in and stronger Where does it get us?”
Morgan shook his head ”You've got it wrong Even if we hadn't had it forced on us, ould have been ot to quit drawing attention to theot to build up our strength and weapons We've got to have organization and weapons - nationwide organization and guns, knives, and hand grenades We've got to turn this mine into a factory
There are people down in Barclay who can use the stuff we canBarclay be blasted in the meantime Easy does it”
”Ed Morgan, you're kidding yourself and you know it”
”How?”
”How? Look, you soldup - ”
”You volunteered”
”Okay, I volunteered It was all because you were so filled with fire and vinegar about hoould throw the enemy back into the ocean You talked about France and Poland and how the Filipinos kept on fighting after they were occupied You soldyou didn't tell round that freed its own country All of them had to be pulled out of the soup by an invasion fro to pull us out
There was silence after this remark The statement had too much truth in it, but it was truth that noMorrie broke it ”Captain?”
”Yes, Morrie” Being a fighting man, Morrie was therefore a citizen and a voter
”How can Joe be so sure he knohat he's talking about? History doesn't repeat Anyhow, land, maybe - or even the Russians”
Benz snorted ”Listen to the punk! Look, kid, England was smashed like ere, only worse - and Russia, too Grow up; quit daydreaedly ”You don't know that We only knohat they chose to tell us And there aren't enough of them to hold down the whole world, everybody, everywhere We never ed to lick the Yaquis, or the Moros And they can't lick us unless we let theed ”Okay, okay Noe can all sing My Country 'Tis of Thee and recite the Scout oath That ought to make Morrie happy-”
”Take it easy, Joe!”
”We have free speech here, don't we? What I want to know is, How long does this go on? I'e of eating jackrabbits You know I've fought with the best of theone on the raids Well, haven't I? Haven't I? You can't call an conceded
”All right I'd go along indefinitely if I could see so does this go on?” When do we estured i; it may be ten years The Poles waited three hundred years”
”That tears it,” Benz said slowly ”I was hoping you could offer some reasonable plan Wait and arrenades against ato yourselves?
We're licked!” He hitched at his belt ”The rest of you can do as you please - I'ht, I can't ned noncoun Report to Cathleen”
”You don't get et round”