Ever have something you felt like saying, but you couldn't find any opening to slide into any existing threads and it didn't make for much of a new one? Well here you are. It's sort of like the old "Useless Information Thread" except it's even more open. Kind of like organized spam. Only without the organization.
I started reading "Summer of My German Soldier" today, and someone at Obsidian must have read it too. Its about a Jewish girl whose town in Arkansas is playing home to a prison camp for German POWs during WWII. She gets to know one of the enemy soldiers over time and learns he isn't what you would think. I haven't read much beyond the first page, but from what I gathered in the summary, he sounds sort of familiar. One part goes something like this:
"'I came running out of hiding to- my God, I did, didn't I?' His hand dropped to his side, and I could see he was smiling his wonderful glad-to-be-living smile. 'After almost two years of being as inconspicuous a coward as possible, I had no idea that would voluntarily risk my life for anyone.' He shook his head in disbelief."
His hair is brown with a bit of a wave in the front, and his name is Anton. Why does this sound oddly familiar...?