Word: davidowicz
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...year-old buddy, Arthur Davidowicz, did not vibrate so alarmingly. He looked wistfully blank at times, at times just old and beaten. "I wish the policeman would've shot me," he said, "I'd of been better...
...cops winced. The record showed that Lodzinski and Davidowicz had grown up in Detroit as healthy, law-abiding kids. They were friends in high school, left town together in 1941 to join the Marines. They were months on Guadalcanal, Lodzinski as truck driver, Davidowicz as machine gunner...
...Corporal Lodzinski went after water for some wounded, and caught a bomb burst in the back. He was many months in hospital, was then honorably discharged. Private Davidowicz had broken in action, had been dishonorably discharged for leaving his post in the face of enemy fire. He had his own excuse for that: suffering from concussion, and bullet and stab wounds, he had abandoned his gun to go after a wounded...
...them. Lodzinski confided: "I don't know what's the matter with me. I can't stand things. Noise or people. I go funny." His record at the Veterans' Hospital in Dearborn was more expressive-50% of normal efficiency, hysteria, shell shock, war neurosis. Davidowicz, too, had been under close psychiatric observation. Justice moved reluctantly...
Last week the tavernkeeper they had robbed flatly refused to prosecute the veterans. Then Automaker Henry Ford stepped in and secured their release. Lodzinski and Davidowicz will go to Ford's Camp Legion at Dearborn, operated by the Ford Trade School as a veterans' rehabilitation center. Mechanical training and $3 a day will be theirs, and permanent Ford jobs, if they recover. Said one delighted detective, pulling the pair aside: "You guys make good and we'll tear up those arrest cards...