The Five People You Meet in Heaven Page #5

Come on, Rabozzo, go.

Say your prayers, buddy boy.

- What the hell you grunts doing?

- It's a race, Cap!

A race! That's open ground!

On three. One... two...

Look at Eddie go.

Man, he's a carny. He probably

walks tightropes, too.

Go, go, go! Move it!

Open up!

Come on, Eddie!

Captain?

It is you.

But you look...

Like the last time you saw me?

See, time ain't what

you think it is, kid.

Either is dying.

I figure it's like that whole

Adam and Eve thing, right?

Adam's first night on Earth...

when he lays down to sleep...

he probably thinks,

that's it, right?

His eyes are closing,

the world's over, he's a gonner...

what does he know from sleep?

Next morning he wakes up!

He still has the world,

but now he has something else...

he has his yesterday.

Aw, you're right.

No reason to spit up here.

No reason to smoke.

Old habits, I guess.

Look, Captain... sir.

No reason for that either,

but much obliged.

Captain, there's some

kinda mistake going on.

I mean. I don't belong here.

I lived a nothin' life, see?

I never went nowhere.

I never accomplished

anything worth note.

Couldn't find a job?

No. No, I had a job.

A dumb job. I fixed the rides

at this amusement park.

Ruby Pier.

Ruby Pier.

That's the place you always used

to tell us about, right?

We were all gonna go there

when the war was done.

'Free rides with the prettiest

ladies in the tunnel of love.'

That's right.

You ever seen them boys again?

Morton? Smitty?

Morton... Smitty...

Throw the pineapple!

Throw it, Johnny, come on!

Johnny!

The grenade!

Eddie learned

the quiet prayers of war.

He learned to go

days without rest...

and nights without sleep.

He learned how

to take a prisoner...

but not how to become one.

And then one night,

in the Philippines...

he learned that, too.

- Who's that?

- Shut it, kid.

Aw, you bastards...

Eddie?

You heard him, kid.

Shut it.

They're gonna kill us.

I never saw none of them

boys after the war.

Well, people lose touch...

- So.

- What?

You went back to that park,

you took that job. Then what?

Then nothing. I never left.

I meant to. But I...

things never worked out.

Money. My leg.

I never really got the war

out of my head.

Maybe you weren't supposed to.

One more sip for me,

okay champ?

Do that for me...

Good. That's it.

What is it?

In this rat hole?

Could be anything.

He can't keep his food down.

What food?

I'm freezing...

Oh God...

Easy, buddy boy... easy.

Where is everybody?

They're losing this war...

How desperate do they gotta be

using us to do this?

I figure some go awol

every night.

Rats off a sinking ship.

- How much longer?

- Not much.

I seen them digging

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