He knew most of all that he wanted to go home — that there was something at home he had to get, and he didn’t even know what it was. During the long, hard training, there had not been time to think of himself nor to want anything.
The ceremony at the end was unreal.
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John Steinbeck’s ‘With Your Wings’ was first heard in July 1944, when Orson Welles read it aloud at the end of one of his radio broadcasts, but was not then printed. This is its first UK publication.
© 2014, Waverly Kaffaga as Executrix of the Estate of Elaine A. Steinbeck. Permission granted courtesy of McIntosh and Otis Inc. and Curtis Brown Ltd. First published by The Strand Magazine.
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