Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1973)

Story (1973)

Excerpt

Notes of a Dirty Old Man

The POW propaganda plant is still grinding against all sensibilities. We lost the war, got our asses kicked out by starving men and women half our size. We couldn't bomb, con or beg them into submission so we got out, and while getting out somebody had to come up with a smokescreen to make the populace forget we got our asses kicked. Let's build the POW angle, they said, and so it began...

External Links

• Scan of magazine appearance (NOLA Express)
• Scan of magazine appearance (Los Angeles Free Press)

Appears in Books

• The Bell Tolls for No One - 2015, pg. 119

Appears in Magazines

• NOLA Express - no. 130, April 27-May 10 1973, pg. 10
• Los Angeles Free Press - no. 457, April 20-30 1973, pg. 16