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When he came to Harvard in the fall of 1943, Mack lived in Adams House, the only civilian dormitory in a militarized campus...
...arrived in Cambridge in '43, a 17-year-old kid from the country, and I was surrounded by a sea of uniforms," he says. "Harvard was virtually a military camp, and I was a skinny kid in civilian clothes. That was the shock...
Neibuhr's "chance" began when he was in the Navy. He had applied and been accepted to Harvard as a civilian, but enlisted in the Navy when he turned 18. Ironically, his officers' training unit was stationed at Harvard, where he lived in Eliot House. Two of Niebuhr's peers in the officers training program, Steven M. Shafroth '47 and Raymond F. Sullivan '47, will also be returning to Harvard for the reunion...
...became clear to me that when I returned to Harvard as a civilian...I Wanted to concentrate in philosophy," Niebuhr says. "I found it fascinating...
...very unfortunate the way they handled my case. I would love to be able to continue to serve my country. I would love to be able to continue flying. Yeah, I'm gonna try to keep flying within my life, whether it's as an instructor, as a civilian or for a commercial airline. I don't know...