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There had been a great deal of hysteria. There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar. Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it. Before Krebs went away to the war he had never been allowed to drive the family motor car. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the second division returned from the Rhine in the summer of 1919.

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Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie, and after he had done this twice he, too, had a reaction against the war and against talking about it. He came back much too late. Mihiel and in the Argonne did not want to talk about the war at all. Krebs acquired the nausea in regard to experience that is the result of il 'f untruth or exaggeration, and when he occasionally met another man who I,l l ' f1 had really , been a soldier and they talked a few minutes in the dressing I room at a dance he fell into the easy pose of the old soldier among other r soldiers: that he had been badly, sickeningly frightened all the time. Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it.

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There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar. Krebs acquired the nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration, and when he occasionally met another man who had really been a soldier and the talked a few minutes in the dressing room at a dance he fell into the easy pose of the old soldier among other soldiers: that he had been badly, sickeningly frightened all the time. People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the second division returned from the Rhine in the summer of 1919. Ernest Hemingway, "Soldier's Home" 1925 Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas.

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The Rhine does not show in the picture. People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over. Krebs and the corporal look too big for their uni- forms. His lies were quite unimportant lies and consisted in attributing to himself things other men had seen, done or heard of, and stating as facts certain apocryphal incidents familiar to all soldiers. His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities. His acquaintances, who had heard detailed accounts of German women found chained to machine guns in the Argonne and who could not comprehend, or were barred by their patriotism from interest in, any German machine gunners who were not chained, were not thrilled by his stories. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States until the second division returned from the Rhine in the summer of 1919.

There is a picture which shows him on the Rhine with two German girls and another corporal. His father was in the real estate business and always wanted the car to be at his command when he required it to take clients out into the country to show them a piece of farm property. Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it. The Rhine does not show in the picture. His acquaintances, who had heard detailed accounts of German women found chained to machine guns in the Argonne and who could not comprehend, or were barred by their patriotism from interest in, any German machine gunners who were not chained, were not thrilled by his stories.

The German girls are not beautiful. Even his lies were not sensational at the pool room. All of the times that had been able to make him feel cool and clear inside himself when he thought of them; the times so long back when he had done the one thing, the only thing for a man to do, easily and naturally, when he might have done something else, now lost their cool, valuable quality and then were lost themselves. At first Krebs, who had been at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. There had been a great deal of hysteria. At first Krebs, who had been at Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. There is a picture which shows him on the Rhone with two German girls and another corporal.

All of the times that had been able to make him feel cool and clear inside himself when he thought of them; the times so long back when he had done the one thing, the only thing for a man to do, easily and naturally, when he might have done something else, now lost their cool, valuable quality and then were lost themselves. Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. Mihiel and in the Argonne did not want to talk about the war at all. A distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he had told. People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over.

The men from the town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately on their return. Later he felt the need to talk but no one wanted to hear about it. In this way he lost everything. The Rhine does not show in the picture. A distaste for everything that had happened to him in the war set in because of the lies he had told. Krebs and the corporal look too big for their uniforms. Now the reaction had set in.

The car always stood outside the First National Bank building where his father had an office on the second floor. Now, after the war, it was still the same car. Now the reaction had set in. Krebs found that to be listened to at all he had to lie and after he had done this twice he, too, had a reaction against the war and against talking about it. His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities.

He came back much too late. The men from the town who had been drafted had all been welcomed elaborately on their return. His lies were quite unimportant lies and consisted in attributing to himself things other men had seen, done or heard of, and stating as facts certain apocryphal incidents familiar to all soldiers. By the time Krebs returned to his home town in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over. His acquaintances, who had heard detailed i! By the time Krebs returned to his home town in Oklahoma the greeting of heroes was over.