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TOM SHEEHAN: Also Henry

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Cemetery boss said, “Check out the old homeless Vets’ activity. The hole dug yesterday’s been disturbed. Make sure the casket’ll fit.” A gravestone was erected: “Herbert Sendall 1932-2017.” Later inscribed: “Also Henry.”

He heard a Vet say, “We put old Henry down. Free of all the hullabaloo.” He saluted sharply.

Tom Sheehan wrote this story.

GORDON LYSEN: Casualty

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Davie survived the Middle East conflicts, where he witnessed the atrocities he thought he had handled.

Returning home, full in body but mentally adrift, he found an unscalable wall around all he had loved. He drifted, with doorways becoming his refuge. He froze to death last winter.

Lest we forget.

Gordon Lysen is a fledgling writer.