Zepka's War
by Steven Wyner
SAUL ZEPKA, eighteen, handsome, a Jewish kid from Brooklyn. Dreams of exploring the copper mines of Arizona or of being discovered in Hollywood are shattered by Pearl Harbor and his draft notice. Forty years later the former demolitions expert is still haunted by the accident he thinks he caused and the image of those two American soldiers lying face down in the dirty hedgerows of Normandy.