SOLDIER HOME and THE BATTLER ERNEST HEMINGWAY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 26 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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These two stories are from post WW1 collections Hemingway wrote depicting veterans who couldn't get6 a grip on life once they returned.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone. The one thousand one classic short stories entails. This is your host |
| 0:34.6 | and storyteller John Haggadorn. Today two early Hemingway short stories. The |
| 0:41.0 | first soldiers home and the Second The Battler. Hope you enjoy them. |
| 0:46.0 | Today's story, Soldiers Home by Ernest Hemingway. |
| 0:51.0 | This is Chapter 7 of Hemingway's Short Story Collection, in Our Time, which was published in 1925. |
| 0:57.0 | Hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:02.0 | While the bombardment was knocking the trench to pieces at Vissalta, he lay very flat and |
| 1:07.4 | sweated and prayed, oh Jesus Christ get me out of here! |
| 1:11.8 | Dear Jesus, please get me out. |
| 1:14.0 | Christ, please, please, please, |
| 1:17.0 | please, Christ. |
| 1:18.0 | If you'll only keep you from getting killed, |
| 1:21.0 | I'll do anything you say. |
| 1:22.0 | I believe in you, and I'll tell everybody in the world that you're the only thing that matters. |
| 1:27.0 | Please, please dear Jesus. |
| 1:31.0 | The shelling moved further up the line. We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet. |
| 1:40.0 | The next night back at Mestra, he did not tell the girl he went upstairs with the de Villerosa about Jesus, and he never told anybody. |
| 1:51.0 | Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas. |
| 1:54.0 | There is a picture which chose him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar. |
| 2:00.0 | He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not return to the United States |
| 2:06.2 | until the Second Division returned from the Rhine in the summer of 1919. |
| 2:10.2 | There is a picture which shows him on the Rhine with two German girls and another |
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