Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Talk of the Sanctum. Of the wonderful evening two years ago, to the day, when you first climbed the stairs. Vag liked that idea. The others hadn't been so impressed, but he thought the place looked like a little piece of all that he had expected Harvard to be. Now the need for a new paint job was even greater, but Vag still thought of the Sanctum that way. It was home to him, far more than D-21 had ever been. He thought of the Ivy Leaguer's ode to upstairs and he was still. That should...
Escape and Reward. On another patrol we waylaid a convoy. It was bright moonlight and rather difficult to carry out an attack on the surface because eventually we would be sighted. I hadn't appreciated they were zigzagging. When I was just ready to fire, everything all set, the fellow I was attacking zigged straight towards me. I couldn't get deep quite soon enough and the ship ran over the top of us. It smashed both periscopes, and took away quite large chunks of the bridge. We snooped beneath the convoy until they had passed. We were...
...radio. "Frogs, frogs. I say frogs. All right, stupid, I mean tanks," he yelled at someone at the other end. A leather-faced farmer from Tennessee, Sergeant Robert Riggina, chimed in dryly, "Them tanks is all right. F Company woulda been kilt or captured yesterday if them tanks hadn't come...
Most men are afraid to die. That was not true of the marines who went into Tarawa. They spent their lives recklessly. When I got back to Pearl Harbor some Army officers asked me whether the doctors hadn't doped the marines before they waded ashore through that machine-gun fire. I couldn't help being amused...
...published in This Week a short story about a scared soldier. Apropos her husband's difficulties, she. recalled: "I think I'm a good mother, but I can remember all too well punishing my children in the heat of disappointment or shock and wishing later I hadn't. ... He made a mistake-and it can't be undone-I just hope they won't kick him to death while he's down." Clifton Fadiman, in his last month as The New Yorker's book critic, was reported by friends to be playing with...