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Jack Falsey and Jim Christy are now parading around together under the banner of the Lobster Twins; but Jim hides his color a little better then "Blushing Jack...
...Universal training for national defense did not have its birth in militarism or autocracy. It has almost everywhere followed the banner of freedom & democracy. . . . We have no right to gamble on the hope that our country for the third time will have even the little breathing space she has had in these two wars for preparation...
There He Is! As the crowds roared their applause, he stood stiffly erect in a Fire-Department touring car, bowing, saluting, holding his helmet over his heart. At Lexington, where the world-heard shot was fired in 1775, citizens had raised a banner: "WELCOME GEORGE BLOOD 'N' GUTS PATTON. NICE GOING!" At Cambridge City Hall the car drove beneath arched Fire-Department ladders. Handed a gavel .made from the Washington Elm, Georgie Patton promised, "I'll cherish it forever...
Before long, everybody knew that the signaling gentleman was U.S. District Attorney Philip Barton Key, son of the famed composer of The Star-Spangled Banner. They knew, too, that the lady was Teresa Sickles, daughter of an Italian opera conductor and lovely wife of the distinguished young Daniel Edgar Sickles, U.S. Representative from New York, lawyer, "Father of Central Park," Tammany man, former First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in London, and a descendant of one of New York City's most respected Dutch families...
Into that Platz, then into others, and finally into the vast wreckage of Unter den Linden came tanks and guns. Katusha rockets screeched over the Brandenburger Tor. Then, against a background of flames, the Red banner of victory was unfurled over the gutted Reichstag building. But, even after the ten-day battle was won, Germans died hard...