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...Much Guts. As the Marines advanced down the valley toward the ridge they were met with a hail of fire. From the left rear came the angry eruption of a machine gun. Then another machine gun opened from the valley floor to the right rear as the marines started up No Name Ridge. From the top of the hill came more machine-gun fire, interlaced with blasts from other automatic weapons and mortars...
...Hail to the Chief." There were the usual brave boasts from the professionals. Behind them lay unspoken doubts and abandoned platforms. No longer would the Democrats sing of the Brannan Plan and Fair Deal benefits; no longer would the Republicans stress the evils of creeping socialism and deficit spending...
This did not mean that the Republicans would denounce the war effort. "We'll man the pumps and unroll the hose," said Colorado's Senator Millikin dryly. "But damned if we'll sing, 'Hail to the Fire Chief...
...Hail & Farewell...
...post. Naturally, the post has buglers. Chinese buglers are not to be compared with any others of my experience. They do not content themselves with blowing reveille in the morning and going away. At either five or six a.m., depending on local whim, they bugle their first notes of hail to the new morning. They do this in pairs, generally consisting of one accomplished bugler and one tyro. They then proceed, for precisely an hour, to bugle a nicely calculated discord with the tyro burbling and burping perhaps half a beat behind the master bugler. You get used...