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			Some works created during and after the War - drawings, photography, poetry - were reportorial, some "artistic". Others dark, even morbid :
	A poem sent home from combat by "V-mail" - a reaction to war-death and reports of Southern lynchings:       VISION OF AMERICA -- GERMANY, 20 FEB. 1945 -- J.A.B.                           America -- I see the tumult, bent for the cinema. A racing car. The rattling tongue. The filth of the gutter and rasping lung. America's portrait: the world's prodigy. A half-dead man from a half-crazed mob is dragged by his feet with bleeding hands and scraping cheek down the lane and past the creek by the old oak tree and a black man hangs as a white cross burns and the Southern fires flare to the mirth. *    *    *
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