[Bananafish] Roots of the ever ...

[Michael Anello]

lofl

On 2/14/07, Christopher Kubica <chriskubica at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This really means nothing without sources.
>
> --
> CDMK
>
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> > From: Kenneth <kenny2 at verizon.net>
> > Reply-To: bananafish list <bananafish at lists.bway.net>
> > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:24:34 -0500
> > To: <bananafish at lists.bway.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Bananafish] Roots of the ever ...
> >
> > Related or not, I'm going to tell you an agonizing story. It recounts
> events
> > far less uplifting than bathroom diary entries and far blacker than the
> > wings of seraphim. Personally, I believe that such accounts (if not this
> one
> > in particular) may have everything to do with Salinger writing
> > "Bananafish" - or at least lends a fascinating dimension to the
> > possibilities involved.
> > Three days after D-Day, Salinger experienced his first true taste of
> combat.
> > His Regiment had been lured into an intractable position by the Germans,
> > wedged between an enemy strongpoint at the village of Émondeville and
> the
> > guns of the fortress of Azeville. Here, the Germans bombarded them on
> two
> > sides. Salinger found himself on his belly, his Company pinned down
> before
> > Émondeville where they were outnumbered two-to-one (Salinger's estimate
> is
> > actually higher). Under relentless machine gun and mortar fire,
> desperate
> > and unable to withdraw, the soldiers were forced to rush the German
> defenses
> > regardless of the odds. They were, of course, cut down each time. After
> > scrambling to collect the dead and wounded, they would storm the
> position
> > yet again, only to gain a few miserable feet at terrible cost. For over
> two
> > days and nights, Salinger's Company repeatedly hurled themselves against
> the
> > enemy until the Germans silently withdrew.
> > This is the battle that Salinger details in his story, "The Magic
> Foxhole."
> > It welded the men of his Regiment and Company together as a brotherhood.
> It
> > was baptism by fire. The daily regimental report reveals the magnitude
> of
> > the slaughter. They had lost three hundred men. The Regiment had
> sacrificed
> > one in ten of their own to take a village whose entire population
> numbered
> > less than a hundred. Again Salinger's numbers for his Company are far
> > higher.
> > All this is prelude to my point, which I offer here for the only time. I
> > will never publish my findings and will deny its validity like hell if
> ever
> > pressed.
> > After the carnage, Salinger proceeded noth toward Montebourg. But his
> > Company was determined to track down the Germans who had fled
> Émondeville.
> > Entering the village of .Joganville the following day, they captured a
> large
> > number of German soldiers who they found in dissarray. Convinced that
> these
> > were the same soldiers who had tortured them at Émondeville, the Company
> > exacted a ferocious revenge. They executed the Germans to the last man.
> > A letter written by Salinger two days later shows him broken.
> >
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