"I beg your pardon, sir." The Captain interrupts him. "This woman says that their men are on the second floor and...."
"Good! Send six men up there and hang every one of them."
"Sir, they say that the Russians have already hung them. As American collaborationists, sir!"
"What! Humph! Well ... send some men up there to cut them down and hang them again. No! Wait, Captain! We'll wait until the TV cameras get here."
It was just then that the word came for us to pull back, for us to give up this building and fall back to our old positions.
"My God! What's the matter with them?" Whitey says. "After all the guys we lost taking this place, why do we have to give it up?"
"Maybe they want us to do it over again for the TV," the Sergeant says as we watch the other two companies pull out, herding the civilians before them.
"I don't want to go," Whitey says suddenly. "If I stay here I might remember."
"To hell with it, Whitey," Coleman tells him. "Maybe you wouldn't like it if you did remember. Maybe you're better off this way."
"I like it here. There used to be pictures up above.... I found a piece of one during the fighting ... it was ... beautiful."