I Came Home Early
“I’d look into the mirror each day, wondering at the strangeness of the tweeds, until one day I should no longer wonder. Then I should have become a civilian again.”
John Paris
John Paris of Butte, Montana, is a former Technical Sergeant of the Infantry who has been honorably discharged because of wounds received in Italy. At the moment he is doing defense work in a lead and zinc mine, but plans to return to the editorial work in which he had made a beginning before the war. “I was born in 1910,” he writes, “which should make me a cinch to avoid the draft for the third world war.”