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IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN by Don Freeman

IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN

by Don Freeman

Pub Date: July 19th, 1945
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace

Full cycle — man into dog into man — as Private Bedlington is conditioned first by the issue of his dog tag, then by the barked command "Crawl" — and slowly discovers that he has taken on the externals of his name. And then in pictures and brief captions, his adventures — his discovery that he is discriminated against as no soldier of the armed forces should be discriminated against — his final departure on furlough, his brief enlistment in K-9, his reconversion, are entertainingly traced. Insert some double meanings if you will — or turn the pages for sheer escape on dog days.