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...Marines in my battalion were like my own sons,” Desgrosseilliers said. “It’s really important to sit down and talk about it—it’s like losing a member of your family...
...midst of a five-year war with no foreseeable end, MIT’s Army ROTC officials say that Harvard’s representation in the battalion has not suffered a downturn. The University currently supplies 17 of the Paul Revere battalion’s 62 members, with the next largest contributor, MIT, accounting for 13, according to battalion officials...
...Still, the student says, he cannot discount the effect that the war had on his decision to join the battalion...
...Throughout the whole of its regimen, the Paul Revere battalion only appears to have one speed—brisk. Even words aren’t allowed to loiter in the mouth. In fine military style, the outfit shortens most anything that can be shortened: operations orders become “opords,” fragmentary orders “fragos,” warning orders “warnos,” and meals—breakfast, lunch, and dinner—are united under the simple moniker “chow,” or sometimes, if ovens...
...German police battalion arrived at the shtetl of Sudilkov, in the Ukraine. The policemen led several hundred people to a bomb crater outside the town and shot them. The victims fell into the crater. A woman, unharmed, climbed out and sat on the edge, crying. A soldier shot her, and she fell back in. It was August...