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...citizens are ready to sacrifice. Last week, across the U.S., 82,000 reservists and National Guardsmen prepared to answer a call to active duty. Among them were 10,000 officers and enlisted men from 72 Wisconsin communities. They were members of the National Guard's famed 32nd Division-and there could be no doubting their spirit...
...Arrow Tattoo. The 32nd is a crack outfit. It earned its shoulder patch, a red arrow piercing a battle line, in the Meuse-Argonne during World War I. Its first casualties were suffered when the troopship Tuscania was sunk by a German submarine. In World War II the Red Arrow Division fought its way from Buna to Saidor to Hollandia to Aitape to Luzon in 654 combat days-more than any other army unit in the nation's history. Along the way its men won n Congressional Medals of Honor, 49 Legions of Merit, 153 Distinguished Service Crosses...
...When the 32nd returned to Wisconsin after four years of World War II, the town of Marshfield (pop. 14,153) had suffered so many casualties (20 dead out of an infantry company of 122 men) that it refused to have another National Guard unit located there. Recalls Mrs. Clare Ecke, whose husband fought with the Red Arrow Division: "I remember one blue Monday when the Marshfield News Herald had nine killed-in-action pictures spread across the front page. That's a lot for a town like this to take." But Marshfield changed its mind...
...impact of the 32nd's return to duty will be felt in every Wisconsin city and town. The far north town of Superior (pop. 33,563) is losing a high school principal, superintendent of student teaching, basketball coach and 55 students at Wisconsin State College. Medford (pop. 1,622) is sending its mayor, its city attorney and three teachers. Rib Lake (pop. 794) is losing its only physician, Dr. Robert Pettera. Says Pet-tera: "I knew when I signed up that I had to be ready for something like this...
...Reminiscent of Oxford's 17th century dean, Dr. John Fell, whose reputation survives in one lethal quotation. He once threatened Poet Thomas Brown with university expulsion, promised to rescind the order if Brown could deliver an impromptu translation of Martial's 32nd Epigram ("Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te"). Brown's translation...