[Bananafish] Roots of the ever ...

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> > From: Michael Anello <michaelanello at gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: bananafish list
> <bananafish at lists.bway.net>
> > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:12:45 -0800
> > To: bananafish list <bananafish at lists.bway.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Bananafish] Roots of the ever ...
> > 
> > lofl
> > 
> > On 2/14/07, Christopher Kubica
> <chriskubica at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> This really means nothing without sources.
> >> 
> >> --
> >> CDMK
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> 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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> > This distortion is extreme with no way to lessen
> it.
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