Mildred Pierce Reporting 2 (Old Sarge)

From here to eternity

Mildred Pierce reporting

I was there, I saw it

I saw women thrown down on 5th Avenue

And raped in their mink coats

By blacks and whites and yellows

While street urchins stripped the rings from their fingers

A young officer stood nearby

"Aren't you going to do something?" I demanded

He looked at me and yawned

I found Colonel Bradshaw bivouacking in the Ritz

I told him bluntly what was going on

His eyes glinted shamelessly as he said

"Well, you have to take a broad general view of things"

And that's what I have been doing

Taking a broad general view of American troops

Raping and murdering helpless civilians

While American officers stand around and yawn

Been at it a long time, lady

It's the old Army game from here to eternity

It pays to pay the boys off

Tacitus describes a typical scene

If a woman or a good looking boy fell into their hands

They were torn to pieces in the struggle for possession

And the survivors were left to cut each other's throats

Well, there's no need to be that messy

Why waste a good looking boy?

Mother-loving American Army run by old women

Many of them religious, my God

Hanging American soldiers

Raping and murdering civilians

Old Sarge bellows from here to eternity

"What the bloody fucking hell are civilians for?

Soldiers pay!"