In May of 1945, only a few weeks after the fighting had ended in Europe, I was rotated back to the States, where I spent the remainder of the war with a training company at Camp Crowder, Missouri.
By Philip Roth In May of 1945, only a few weeks after the fighting had ended in Europe, I was rotated back to the States, where I spent the remainder of the war with a training company at Camp Crowder, Missouri.
The day I got on the job and came home with all my bunker gear, I said, 'I'm a fireman now!' And my girlfriend, Jennifer, all she said was, 'Just be careful.' " Now: "Last fall I was rotated to Hook and Ladder 161 in Coney Island.
"And I was rotated on a Lazy Susan with the camera moving on a computerized arm.
I am stationary but feel as if I am rotating, levitating in strange directions.
"I'm rotating in on 30 to 40percentt of the plays.
But, I try to focus, as if I were rotating the rings that control the lenses in the "telescope"; then some singular images come into view.
And as it was rotating around, I noticed something out in front that was a white cylindrical shape with a white pole sticking out of one corner of it -- it [looked like] a beer can with a smooth pencil sticking out".
Specifically, it was rotating.
