Apr 18
Shirley Molnar — a drifter and a veteran.
• Knows all the forests and the sewer systems
• The only one who saved Clifford during a gas attack
• Lightens the mood by the campfire with a guitar
+ Has mastered playing the cimbalom
• A port rat, engaged in supplying the Hornstons and the Smiths
Landing at Gallipoli, where his unit was ambushed:
When Shirley, wounded, tried to drag a comrade into cover, the man, delirious, pushed him away, saying: “Don’t touch me, you filthy Mohammedan.” The comrade died a minute later, and those words were etched into Shirley’s memory forever. Now, for him, “Arab,” “Magyar,” or “Mohammedan” is not just a label — it is a symbol that even as he shed blood for Britain, he was seen as an enemy.
