Summary

Aug. 24, 1944 – Rose writes that Uncle Roger sent her a fuse. Aunt Edie had asked Rose about her dream regarding the unexploded bomb, and Rose assumes Edie told Uncle Roger. Therefore, he sent Rose a dismantled fuse from a German bomb, and with it he sent “a diagram and note explaining how ‘demystification’ stops you from being afraid of something…” (41). Rose showed off the fuse to everyone at the airfield, and they were all fascinated. Maddie took the fuse apart and put back it back together several times, and Rose mentions that she thought that now she would have nightmares about the unexploded bomb blowing up Maddie’s hands.

Felicyta angrily wondered if they could reload the bomb, and then she told Maddie and Rose that her sister and mother are both in German concentration camps. Rose felt like “an Ignorant American Schoolgirl...