From the day
Perspective: The Anxious Local · Sound
The shrill whistle of a distant engine cuts through the fog, a sound that always makes me clutch my thin wool coat tighter as I fret over the six cents I just bled out for a measly loaf of bread. I can’t stop staring at the newsstand, my ears ringing with the headline: BRITISH REPRISALS FOR LONDON RAIDS ARE NOW LIKELY; Government Is Said to Await Only the Word from the Military Command. IMPORTANT STEPS FORECAST Gen. Lloyd, Commanding City's Defenses, and Mr. Addison Suggest Action Is Near. GERMANS EXPECT ATTACKS Cologne and Wilhelmshaven Warn Their Citizens Against Entente Air Raiders. Reject Official Excuses. Ten Killed Monday Night. BEGIN REPRISALS FOR LONDON RAIDS Bombes Two British Hospitals. A neighbor hums "Over There" while tinkering with a zipper, but the cheerful tune feels hollow when the papers say our own boys in Blighty are facing such carnage. It’s a terrifying racket of progress and pain that makes me wonder if there’s