disqualified late entry into the Kent State peace and war contest/part 2

disqualified late entry into the Kent State peace and war contest/ part 2

fiction
edward w pritchard

Entry not eligible for merit or mention, author is not a student, see also part 1

In the first world war trains were a friend of the people. Swiftly moving troops to the French front, shipping the wounded Home and rumbling along with supplies for our brave soldiers.

Now however in this next War the people have a primordial fear of trains, crowded train cars and trips Eastward. No one speaks of trains, no one looks at trains and if one lives near a train station one instinctively avoids looking at the people herded into long lines to swiftly be placed into the cars. One hears many rumors about the luggage of the people in the lines; no luggage of any sort may be carried in the journey. The luggage is sorted for contraband then the luggage is forwarded later secretly.

It is said there are no seats in the cars the passengers travel in and the passengers must enter quickly by huge sliding doors. Passengers huddle together to keep warm and for protection during sudden starts and stops.

Everyone cheered and smiled when the conquered French were forced to sign the surrender in the same train car that our Country was humiliated in by the cowardly leaders in World War One.

Now despite our Countries military successes in the second great war the People have a ominous fear of trains, crowded train cars and trips Westward in train cars with huge sliding doors without seats and traveling without luggage.