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Where he visited all the monuments and even the tombs of George and Martha Washington. I made a particular point of visiting Jefferson’s monument—very beautiful—with a great statue of Jefferson standing. ” No wonder Chisler shoots back a reply fretting about the dangers of idealism. ” 10 T H E WA R B E G I N S One day many years later, I find myself in possession of a box of my father’s most personal keepsakes, mostly pictures and a small cache of Victory Mail. Postcard-sized photostats of letters shot on microfilm on the front and shipped to developing stations back home, the V-mails are frozen pieces of the past.

6 GERMANY Five months later, Mussolini annexes Abyssinia and Franco begins the Spanish Civil War and Jack is back in London, dutifully trudging past miles and miles of Gainsboroughs and Hogarths and depressed because he misses his “German friend”—someone explained in a lost letter, another missing piece of the puzzle. But now a new confusion plagues him. Germany was so clean and friendly, so neat and shining and bourgeois and staid. He liked the food, the beer, the pastry, the people. He especially liked their frank earthiness with regard to sex.

The picture of baby John Chisler in his billfold—he’ll carry it with him when he goes across. In the event he doesn’t return, he wants George to have his books. , where he visited all the monuments and even the tombs of George and Martha Washington. I made a particular point of visiting Jefferson’s monument—very beautiful—with a great statue of Jefferson standing. ” No wonder Chisler shoots back a reply fretting about the dangers of idealism. ” 10 T H E WA R B E G I N S One day many years later, I find myself in possession of a box of my father’s most personal keepsakes, mostly pictures and a small cache of Victory Mail.