New York Penn Station, 1947.
Wendell Tandy, American officer, a medal on his uniform. It just crossed the Atlantic and Europe. He is impatient, he thinks of his family down there in Mississippi that he has not seen for years. He still has a long way to go before arriving in Jackson, his hometown. Wendell Tandy attends to his every gesture, gaze, perhaps to his own thoughts. His home is almost as dangerous as the front he just left.
Wendell Tandy is black. Pontchartrain when the train crossed the Mason-Dixon line, which demarcates the border between the former slave states and free states, it is almost over enemy territory. Mason-Dixon Line is the border historical, political, symbolic, between North and South of the United States. In North Pennsylvania. In Southern Maryland.
Wendell Tandy, American officer, a medal on his uniform. It just crossed the Atlantic and Europe. He is impatient, he thinks of his family down there in Mississippi that he has not seen for years. He still has a long way to go before arriving in Jackson, his hometown. Wendell Tandy attends to his every gesture, gaze, perhaps to his own thoughts. His home is almost as dangerous as the front he just left.
Wendell Tandy is black. Pontchartrain when the train crossed the Mason-Dixon line, which demarcates the border between the former slave states and free states, it is almost over enemy territory. Mason-Dixon Line is the border historical, political, symbolic, between North and South of the United States. In North
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