Love Untold

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rs Street, their black boots singing in perfect unison as the town folk looked on and secretly organized resistance groups that would blow up bridges and stall the Nazi effort. I half expected an announcement over the school public address system that the Germans had finally arrived and we had a new Gestapo Principal. He would force us at gunpoint to go on exhaustive cross-country runs and do jumping jacks on the playground before school started.
Everyone in the town took action. I became a member of the fourth grade boys "Freedom Fighters" troop whose job it was to keep a close eye out for anything suspicious as we patrolled our way home from school. We would meet every morning by Mrs. Kay’s portable radio and share any important information. We were all in agreement that Mr. James, our butcher, was in cahoots with the Germans and was not to be trusted. We really let him have it on Hell Night. We soaped a sloppy swastika on his shop window that was later photographed and put on the front page of the town newspaper. It was very scandalous....