Word: forte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both Mother & Father. Beyond the loneliness and temptations that plague both the G.I. and his faraway wife, both worry about the effect of separation on their children. At Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Mrs. Maurice Miller, wife of an Army colonel who will soon be sent to France, said: "I love the Army about as much as anyone. But I'm all for his resigning if we cannot go with him. I don't think anyone should have to be both a mother and father to five little ones." In Columbia, S.C., Mrs. Tex Gardner, whose U.S. Army sergeant...
...patchwork of local companies that seldom traveled more than a few towns down the road. Recalls Moore: "In my first year a man wanted to buy a ticket to Dallas. I told him he couldn't get there by bus." But Moore learned quickly. In 1943 he bought Fort Worth's Bowen Motor Coaches with the help of a group of backers and soon decided that "the more miles of route you've got, the more miles you've got to spread your overhead out on." In 1945 he am bitiously renamed the line Continental Trailways...
...many a veteran of World War II can recall, Fort Polk is halfway to nowhere...
...there were not enough blankets, boots or underwear to go around. Worst of all to the men of the 49th, after the Berlin crisis seemed to ease, there appeared little reason for their being in uniform. Major General Harley B. West, the division commander, recognized the problem. Said he: "Fort Polk, La., is a hell of a long way from Berlin or Viet Nam or Laos. If there was a shooting war, shots being fired, there'd be no problem." Plucked from his pre-law studies at the University of Texas, Pfc. Owen soon proved himself an outspoken guardhouse...
Also, mimeographed questionnaires, to be mailed to Congressmen, were surreptitiously passed around Fort Polk. Sample questions: "Is the real reason for the National Guard and reservists being held on active duty the fact that Kennedy's plans to cut down on unemployment have failed?" and "Are you conscientiously representing the people who elected you to office, or are you merely appeasing all the 'too liberal' party majority in order to feather your own nest?" Finally, the 49th's General West had had enough. "Each meeting they had was a little bolder," he recalls. "I finally came...