“That’s
what we’d fought for, all of us. To give our kids what we never had. To give
them a better, safer place to live in. Life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
“For
that one night, settled into a hard hospital chair, in the glow of my brand-new
little family, I allowed myself to believe that that hope was not a vain one.
That anything was possible in this glorious post-war world.”
—Max Allan Collins, “Dying in the Post-War World”.
Foul Play Press, 1991 (© 1991). Page 105. Nathan Heller is in the hospital
for his son’s birth.
Ben, I have not read any of Max Allan Collins' books, not even his Mike Hammer novels, considering that I used to read Mickey Spillane a long time ago. I liked the excerpt you reproduced. It conveys succinctly what must have been after the war.
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