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    Threads of The War, Volume II: Threads of The War, #2
    Threads of The War, Volume II: Threads of The War, #2
    Threads of The War, Volume II: Threads of The War, #2
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    Threads of The War, Volume II: Threads of The War, #2

    By Jeremy Strozer

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    “I thoroughly enjoyed it. I very much liked how you put a human touch on each of the incidents that inspired each story.” -Donald 

    Raw personal emotions. Human trial, triumph and tragedy. Can we experience War through the eyes of the soldiers and civilians who lived it?

    See the sites, hear the sounds, and read the stories of war from a unique perspective: behind the eyes and in the mind of its participants. From the celebratory streets of Paris in the summer of 1914, under the coast of North Carolina in 1918, across the ocean to the evacuated beaches of northern France in 1940, and finally within the minds of both the liberated and the confined at camps in 1945.

    Threads 2 is the second collection of flash-fiction in the Threads of The War series. If you like history, personal narrative, and have a short attention span, you’ll love Jeremy Strozer’s touching prose.

    Grab a seat and a copy of Threads of The War, Volume 2 to see war through the eyes of the men, women and children who lived and died in it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJeremy Strozer
    Release dateMar 4, 2016
    ISBN9781311742865
    Threads of The War, Volume II: Threads of The War, #2
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    Jeremy Strozer

    Raised in California, Jeremy moved to the Washington, D.C. area at the age of 18 to attend university. Through education and luck, he became a Fulbright Fellow, a Presidential Management Fellow, and found ways to live and work across vast swaths of the world. Professionally, Jeremy helped remove unexploded ordnance from war-ravaged countries; stem the flow of the world's most dangerous weapons; and potentially reduced the likelihood of war between a couple of the world’s most powerful countries.  He lives in Ireland with his wife, son and daughter where he continues to work on preventing future war and warning the world about the human cost of violence.

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      Threads of The War, Volume II - Jeremy Strozer

      Acknowledgments

      None of these stories would have been written without the encouragement of my wife Jan, whose support and energy drives me to share my passion with the world.

      I would not have started writing if not for my son, Joshua, whose innocence and earnestness compels me to want to eliminate the idea of war from the human condition. Every story I tell is an attempt to, in my own way, try to change the world to potentially save my son from suffering through such catastrophe, let alone participate in one. I also want to demonstrate to Joshua that people can do what they think they most love in life, even if they have to hold down a full-time job while they are doing it. I want him to know he can follow his passions no matter what else in life is going on.

      My mother-in-law, Linda Stennett, continues to provide inspiration and nurturing support as I transition to become a focused author. Her help all these years is what enabled me even to start sharing my writing in the first place.

      Through their encouragement and support, the following people helped form this book: Donald (Pat) Patierno, Shulamit Widawsky, Joshua Spero, Sean Kay, David Seminera, Adam Meyer, Paula Killen, Scott Whitehair, and Nadine Warner.

      This book owes its existence to my Kickstarter supporters: Ara Boghosian, Teah Strozer, Linda Stennett, Susan Bernard, Ed Allen, Ed Yuen, Jason Clark, Adam Meyer, Andrew Mackay, Sharon Young, Fistashko, Zach Baumgartner, and Jan Strozer.

      How this book looks and feels is attributable to the dedicated hard work of my editor, Deb Ling. She turned a collection of missives in MS Word into a final product available to the world.

      Finally, I would like to thank my BETA readers Jonathan Benton, Emilio Iasiello, Caitlin (Fisher) Rourk, Richard Saunders, and Maggie Teliska. Their comments, suggestions, edits, and ideas made this book far better than the one I presented to them originally. Without their help, I could not turn these stories from simple ideas into compelling prose for others to desire reading.

      Introduction

      The wars of the 20th Century are one vibrant and violent tapestry of individuals connected through experiences no rational man or woman would seek, thus proving rationality has little to do with human decision making. Our lives are threads of this tapestry, even today, demonstrating that decisions made more than 100 years ago in times of trial, triumph, and tragedy still alter the course of our existence, shaping the image of the world we create and the lives of those who will follow.

      In this second volume of selected stories from The 20th Century’s War, you will find hope, fear, love, loss, success, mistakes, and failure wrapped up in the emotions and actions of individuals confronting situations of carnage, waste, and depravity. Through it all, the drive to survive compels action, reminding us of human resilience in the face of certain annihilation.

      As you read these stories, please think of all who were touched by The 20th Century’s War, and how you interact with each of them every day. This war lives in all of us. Let us never forget how we got here. Let us learn from this path to guide where we will go next.

      All links to pictures are current at the time of publication.

      Honor Thy Love

      Even the surely painful, vice-like grip of my right hand attempting to hold on to Camille’s delicate, yet unusually sweaty, left, is not enough to keep her within my grasp. The celebratory crowd lurches us in diverging directions through unrelenting waves down the cobblestone central avenue of Marseilles.

      Hold on to me! Camille screams out.

      I’ll never let you go! I call back, unable to catch her hand before it slips beyond my reach.

      I claw across the tall slender, and until a moment ago, smiling and cheering, man whom the crowd wedged between our newlywed hands.

      You hit me! he bellows, not really knowing who hit him, just that he was hit.

      Ducking under his arm as he begins to swing wildly, I catch Camille’s small left hand with my right and twirl her toward me.

      Her right arm swings lovingly over my shoulder and clasps at my neck.

      I’m never leaving your side! she exclaims, with a deep thrust of warm breath, instantly raising my body temperature.

      My left hand slips easily around Camille’s waist. I love you!

      I love you too!

      Her smooth lips thrust against my own, as we stand united like a rock, holding firm despite the flood of humanity celebrating a glorious future about to unfold with the start of this righteous war.

      ~~~

      For weeks now, we’ve been mesmerized by the potential for war against Germany, for the chance our generation must make its mark on history and for the honor to fight on behalf of our beloved France. What a great time to be young, fit, in love, and planning a wedding! Every day over the past few weeks, before heading out for the final preparations at the church or with our families, Camille and I sit together in the park, reading the newspaper as we hold each other. The intrigues of the Serbians, the hard line of the Austrians, the uncompromising Russians, the incomprehensible Germans, and the resolute French strain international relations, as if all muscles are coiled in preparations to let slip every war-enabling resource at each other’s throats.

      The warm summer days pass with ebbs and flows of the chance this war will come as our wedding day approaches. On some days, the chance of encountering war seems inescapable. On others, diplomacy appears to be making dastardly progress toward some settled solution. Lately, though, the path toward general war, not tread since the age of Napoleon, seems to be finally taking shape.

      As Camille and I draw closer to each other, the world draws closer to a definitive end to all of this pathetic uncertainty. We will settle all accounts, once and for all. Germany and Austria-Hungary will be crushed under the sheer weight of the nations arrayed against them. The world will finally have resolution, and I will be married to the most beautiful woman in that world.

      What a glorious time to be alive and in love!

      ~~~

      A post came for me this morning. Camille rushed in, holding the small card with my name on it.

      She cannot contain her giddiness. We’ve been mobilized!

      I look at her for a moment, contemplating what she means before it sinks in. I have been mobilized for war, and she is coming with me.

      She twirls the card in the air as her body gingerly spins in a very small circle. The soft curves of her hips catch the thin fabric of her white dress, wrapping the garment about her. She flings the card to the sky before rounding about to fall into my arms.

      I will not leave your side,

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