tend the service should have the chance to attend. Marx confronted Captain Barrett on the matter, who only confirmed Grossbart’s case by showing he was prejudice. Captain Barrett told Marx he’d “fight side by side with a nigger if the fella proved to me he was a man.”(p.119) Marx was not pleased with the captain’s outlook, and even less pleased when the captain told him he should “leave that stuff to the Chaplain.”(p.119) Marx took it upon himself that the soldiers who wanted to attend church should be allowed and ordered his C.Q. to announce “Jewish personnel who want to attend services this evening are to fall out in front of the orderly room,”(p.120) and then added “By order of Captain Barrett.” Marx had won that battle. Marx, after a few exploits of Grossbart, such as getting a weekend pass to attend a religious dinner a month late and then not attending that dinner, understood that he was being played the fool. Grossbart did not want special privileges for his fellow Jewish soldiers, yet only wanted a free ride in the army. This came to Marx when Grossbart asked if Marx could “do something” about Grossbart’s being shipped off to war in the pacific. Grossbart was not pleased to hear that Marx could do nothing to stop him from being shipped off. Yet, when the orders came in that every trainee was to be deployed in the pacific except Grossbart, Marx knew Grossbart had found another person to trick. Marx decided it was time to face his last battle and called the C and A to have the orders changed so Grossbart was to be shipped to war. Marx used the same ploy Grossbart had wrongly abused to have the changed made when he made up the lie that Grossbart’s brother was “killed in Europe, and he’s hot to go to the Pacific.”(p.138) The orders were changed; Grossbart was going to get what he deserved. Marx was not going to let Grossbart a...
