Civilian Corpse

Oddly enough Germans were still fairly active in the air craft, and we were walking down a road, our platoon, and two German fighter planes came over real low – I suppose they were getting out of anti air craft fire and everything – just above ground level sort of thing so we’d dive into a ditch and one fellow lets out a yell, “Hey, there’s a guy down here!” and here was a civilian Frenchman in overalls, a nice neat, round little hole right in his forehead. He hadn’t been there very long but, you know, he was still, still looked pretty good, he wasn’t... But there wasn’t much we could do about it, we just kept on going. He was dead anyway. I often wonder too, who did that and why? If he was a collaborator....