All Comments on 'Bethany's Decision'

The story was okay, maybe a little better than okay - but the background was all screwed up. The father, unless disabled by wounds, would NOT have been sent home from Normandy, hero or not (the only exception being a Medal of Honor winner - but those took a while to be awarded - often long enough for the hero to be killed in another action)

And - in point of fact most people joining the Army in 1941 were being drafted - in the summer of 1941 the idea of war with Germany was less popular than the idea of war with Iraq is right now Look it up

This is a very interesting story, but I can't figure out what's going to happen. There are a few inaccuracies that the next commentator didn't pick up -- Eisenhower was President Eisenhower in 1956 (and campaigning for re-election), not just a general; and I don't think American soldiers went anywhere near Auschwitz until long after the war. Dad could have grabbed the weapon from a German officer at Mauthausen, Bergen-Belsen, or Dachau instead, or maybe some camp that was less well known. Very good depiction of the Mormons, so far as I know -- I had a close Mormon friend who helped me in my early writing. But what is this young lady going to do with the P-38 -- blow both those greaser guys to hell? That would be pretty hard to explain even back then, impossible now. Or would they "liberate" her to a career of being an early Caril Ann Fugate? (Look up her story; it's been told a few times.) Interesting, but many questions arise; if you write a follow-up, please address them.