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...Never Sets. A man's past, the things that shape his character, are reduced in wartime to a few sentences in a personnel file. But ENSIGN DAVID TATUM, like any fighting-man, is the kind of fighter he is in large measure because of the way he grew up and the things he learned. Tatum flies a Grumman jet fighter off the carrier Valley Forge. When he was a boy in Baton Rouge, La., his father gave him a BB-gun, with instructions to stand guard over the Tatums' little back garden, then beset by seed-snatching sparrows...
...lines. He managed to turn around and ditch the plane about a mile offshore in the sea. He remembers scrambling into the life raft and watching the plane sink slowly. "I gave it sort of a half salute." His main worry was what his plane captain would think when Ensign Tatum was reported missing. A British cruiser picked...
...Ensign Tatum describes patriotism this way: "I don't necessarily believe in the big shots as individuals. But there are a lot of people like me and you. I believe in them. I believe in the American girl I see walking in the street. I have never even met her, but I believe...
...also been impressed with the necessity for submitting written reports, a practice which blights the life of U.S. officers. To his U.S. superiors aboard the battleship Missouri, Lieut. Commander Choi Byung Hae, an R.O.K. naval liaison officer, wrote the following official account of the surrender of a North Korean ensign...
...made ensign my friend and I ordered him to carry my gun. Now he does splendidments for United Nations troops...