more thoughts on WW2...

jacob5@concentric.net
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 02:47:50 -0700

Dear Landsmen,
    Without oversimplifying the current military situation in the middle
east i'd like to wager a few comments regarding the second world war and
it's effect on our subject, mr. jd salinger.
One need look no furthur then for esme with love and squalor, to detect
the great signifigance that the war played upon the young writers life.
Sergent X has a clear case of what they reffered to as Shell shock if
i'm not mistaken. His breakdown is caused by the tragic experience of
war and his inability to re-assimilaite himself into a post or non war
life. Is the war to salinger what allie was to holden?
    Sincerely,
of draft age