Cheryl

Phil wrote about Gunther getting wounded, said it was nothing serious,
that Gunther was one lucky son-of-a-bitch with his million-dollar
injury, because the war was over for him and he’d be back in the world
soon, but I wish he’d told me what happened, because my whole body
shakes when I think about him getting hurt, because I know Gunther,
even though I’ve never met him, I picture this big, sweet guy in a Santa
suit (so his buddies can have a laugh in hell) wearing his girlfriend’s
garter belt (because he misses her so much) and I think about Pastor
Brunner playing his guitar in Sunday school and how I used to think
God was a musician and I was one of his instruments, and believing he
was strumming me, keeping me safe for eternal life, and I can’t believe
anyone could be so brainwashed, even a five-year-old kid, and before I
know it I’m playing “Nowhere Man” on Mickey’s guitar....