Status Updates From Mississippi

“There were white figures inside, four in the car and maybe another three in the truck. Seemed like they practically glowed in the dark. When they got out I seen why.”😣

“How simple things were for Henry! How I wished sometimes that I could join him in his stark, right-angled world, where everything was either right or wrong and there was no doubt which was which. What unimaginable luxury, never to wrestle with whether or why, never to lie awake nights wondering what if.”

“You’ll move if I say so,” Hap said. “For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church.”
“Only so long as he alive,” I said.😆

“They gave us the dregs of everything, including officers. Our lieutenants were mostly Southerners who’d washed out in some other post. Drunkards, yellow bellies, bigoted no-count crackers who couldn’t have led their way out of a one-room shack in broad daylight. Putting them over black troops was the Army’s way of punishing them.”

Heartbreaking and fabulous at the same time. Highly recommend on audio.