"The K. P. and the Top Sergeant," by Frank Eisenberg
"The K. P. and the Top Sergeant," is a "fable," by Frank Eisenberg and tells the story of a Private who wants to be put on K. P. duty so that he doesn't forget his mother.
Frank Eisenberg
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives: Archives & Special Collections in the University of Minnesota Archives.
Box 449, File 17.
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"The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing," by Frank Eisenberg
“The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing is a "fable" written by Frank Eisenberg about a Corporal who met a beautiful girl standing on the corner crying. He asked why she was crying. She said because she was lonely and lost, had her father's car and didn't know how to drive. He agreed to drive her home and then walked back to camp in the dead of night. The moral of the story was never stop to talk to beautiful girls who cry on street corners; they may want you to drive them home.
Frank Eisenberg
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives: Archives & Special Collections in the University of Minnesota Archives.
Box 449, File 17.
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"The Private and the Cook," by Frank Eisenberg
"The Private and the Cook," by Frank Eisenberg has a Private praising a meal that the Cook served. In the end the Private criticizes the Cook's coffee at which the cook falls over dead. The moral of the story is don't expect strong coffee and to be satisfied with the meal.
Frank Eisenberg
Upper Midwest Jewish Artchives: Archives and Special Collections in the University of Minnesota Archives.
Box 449, File 17.
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"The Saga of the Good Ship Bergen," by Art Eisenberg
The Saga of the Good Ship Bergen tells the story of how the Japanese feared the crew of the U. S. S. Bergen more than they feared the atomic bomb.
Art Eisenberg
Upper Midwest Jewish Artchives: Archives and Special Collections the University of Minnesota Archives.
Box 449, File 17.
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<strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">The Lost Letter,</span> </strong>a Short Short Story by Frank Eisenberg.
<p>Successful engineer, Clark Russ, has just arrived back in town and just tonight found in his luggage a letter from Mary, lost a decade or more ago, dated August 1922. In the letter Mary had agreed to marry him before he left on his overseas assignment. He mused over the letter and wondered what if...
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<p>Later that night, he received a telegram, which announced the birth of Clark Russ III and asked, "How is grandpa"? It was signed, Mary.</p>
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Frank Eisenberg
Upper Midwest Jewish Artchives: Archives & Special Collections the University of Minnesota Archives.
Box 449 File 17.
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"I Would Be True," by Art Eisenberg
An excerpt from a letter written by Art Eisenberg and is part of a hymn called "I Would Be True"
Art Eisenberg
Upper Midwest Jewish Archives: Archives & Special Collections of the University of Minnesota Archives.
Box 449, File 1.
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"Those Who Die!" by Frank Eisenberg.
“Those Who Die”, was a poem written by Frank Eisenberg. The deaths of those in the protagonist's life who died fighting in World War II are acknowledged. Those who died included the grocer's son, the baker, the laundry man, the fruit man, the plumber's son, and the newsboy, many of the working class people in his life. The poem also acknowledges the deaths of three schoolboys, a neighbor boy, the rich boy up the street and classmates of his son. The poem ends on a positive note and asks that their sacrifice not be in vain and that "greed, lust and hate”, be conquered and make "Honor rise again."
Frank Eisenberg
Upper Midwest Jewish Artchives: Archives and Special Collections the University of Minnesota Archives.
Box 449, File 15.
Aug 6, 1944
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Those Who Die
The grocer’s son is on Saipon,
The baker’s now in Rome.
The newsboy that we used to have
Lies buried far from home.
The little laundry man is gone,
He lies there waiting, still,
For the transport that will carry him
Back home from Bougainville.
At Kasserine the Plumber’s boy
Picked up a shrapnel bit,
And in London’s robot-bombing hell
Our neighbor’s son was hit.
Three schoolboys lie in Coral Seas,
No more their tramping feet,
Will echo through the corridors
Though the enemy retreat.
With what adventurous spirit
Those youngsters joined the fray,
The morning of December 8th,
I’ve ne’er forget that day.
At Anzie the fruit man’s son
Fell from a sniping Hun,
And many kids my youngster knew
Lie dying in the sun.
That rich kid on the corner
We used to think so swell
Chalked up his fifteenth Zero
And, died in a fiery hell.
The grocer’s a Norwegian,
The finest boy we knew,
The baker was Bohemian,
The newsboy was a Jew.
So rich and poor alike they fall,
A price they’re glad to pay
To cleanse the world of tyranny,
And pave a better way.
And shall we fail those boys who die
Their sacrifice in vain?
Let’s conquer greed and lust and hate,
And make Honor rise again.
Frank Eisenberg
Universal Pictures
Minneapolis, Minn.
August 6, 1944
The Upper Midwest Jewish Archives; Archives & Special Collections in the University of Minnesota Archives.
Box 449, File 10.
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