Word: ensigns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much tidying up yet remains. To this day, parts of Canada still fly the British Union Jack, although the government is trying during the pageantry of the Queen's visit to spread the use of the Red Ensign, with its hard-to-discern Canadian shield. Canadians are unable to decide on a national anthem, and sing either God Save the Queen or O Canada...
...West Point captured five Rhodes scholarships-equaled only by Harvard. The Air Academy came through with one. Cadet Bradley C. Hosmer, first man of the first class. But Annapolis and the Coast Guard Academy got no Rhodes scholarships at all; it became clear years ago that a new ensign who accepts a Rhodes forfeits time at sea and mysteriously never catches up in rank with his class...
Five months after Pearl Harbor, Dillon went on active Navy duty as an ensign, participated in the invasions of Guam, Saipan and the Philippines, served as operations officer for the Seventh Fleet air arm, was discharged in 1945 as a lieutenant commander, and returned to Dillon, Read as chairman of the board. An active Republican, Dillon was elected to the New Jersey Republican State Committee. In 1951 he helped organize the New Jersey Republicans for Eisenhower in the bitter preconvention campaign. After election President Eisenhower named Dillon U.S. Ambassador to France. Dillon was widely traveled in France, spoke French fluently...
...From Ensign Teruo Yamaguchi to his father: "As death approaches, my only regret is that I have never been able to do anything good for you in my life . . . My greatest regret is [my] failure to call you chichiue [revered father]. I regret not having given any demonstration of the true respect which I have always had for you. During my final plunge, though you will not hear it, you may be sure that I will be saying chichiue to you and thinking of all you have done...
...From Ensign Ichizo Hayashi, reared as a Christian, to his mother: "On our last sortie we will be given a package of bean curd and rice. It is reassuring to depart with such good luncheon fare . . . I do not want you to grieve over my death. I do not mind if you weep. Go ahead and weep. But please realize that my death is for the best, and do not feel bitter about it. I have had a happy life . . . I will precede you now, mother, in the approach to Heaven...