GreatestGeneration

    The sputter of the engines was all he could hear as he floated over the Channel.  The bombs below him were a present for German outposts in France, and he had been told there were a lot of anti-aircraft across the way.  They told him he might not come back. For king and country. A soft smile flitted across his features.  The moonlight sparkled over the gently churning waters and he reached into his breast pocket and pulled out his father's watch.  It was engraved, "E. E. Jacobs."  It had been before the Great War, before his father had lost his leg in a bombing last year.  The Yanks were in it now and giving the war a boost, but things