Word: children
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Three days after passing an Air Force "human reliability test" with good marks in February, Meyer was sent to England for temporary duty. He left his wife and three children behind in the rural town of Poquoson, Va. One night last week, Meyer went into Freckenham, a Suffolk town near the Mildenhall air base, got drunk at a party attended by other servicemen and found himself arrested by a constable. He was taken back to the base and put to bed. Although Meyer was under orders not to leave his barracks, about 5 a.m. he got up and sneaked...
...with the 5th Special Engineer Brigade. Later that day, when the U.S. attack had punched inland, a friendly farmer gave him a drink of milk and Heroux met the man's pretty daughter. They were married after the war and returned to Normandy to live. Heroux has four children now and runs a driving school with his father-in-law. Every June 6, he closes his office and wanders down barren Omaha Beach to "walk over the sand and be with the boys who didn't make...
...picture himself, not very convincingly, as an ordinary Frenchman, a sort of Pompoher. "When I go through a red light," he told one audience, "I get tickets and pay them like everyone else. I know about domestic problems, the worries of the children and the dishes to be washed...
...Corps remain steady. A desire to avoid the draft figures in the decision of many students to go into teaching; the New York City school system received 17,199 more applications last year than the year before. Nevertheless, many putative draft dodgers find a true vocation in helping slum children learn...
This picture can be misleading; while significant, it still involves only a minority. The yearning for "meaningful" careers (in the current cliche) is largely confined to the upper-middle-class white students. The majority of students remain reasonably content with traditional careers. In general, the children of blue-collar workers and Negro students strive to attain the very jobs that many privileged whites disdain. Most students have no special quarrel with the profit motive, and an estimated 30% of all graduates go into business. As a senior at Columbia University puts it: "I think it's great that...