Word: heroisms
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...shows are badly written. The only one which is an exception is the fourth, "Mail Call," which tells the story of a dead soldier, as seen through the eyes of his friends. In the final part, they write a letter to his mother telling him of his heroism--despite the fact that every one of them saw him shot in the back by his sergeant while he was running away from the battle line...
Last week while an Army band played, a color guard and three platoons of WACs marched and wheeled and stood at at tention, a trembling Peewee did a front and center, stood alone. The adjutant read a citation: "For outstanding heroism and self-sacrifice," from General Dwight Eisenhower. On her O.D. blouse Major General E.S. Hughes pinned the first Soldier's medal awarded a WAC. Then, though the regulations do not prescribe it, towering General Hughes unbent in the middle, leaned down and planted a kiss on the glowing cheek of Private Maloney...
...these bare bones of history, Author Hay's book gives heroism and humanity...
...marine engineer turned guerilla after his contact with Fascist barbarity, or Vera Inber's "Fragments from a Poem on Besieged Leningrad" are frankly wartime propaganda. But like the other pieces in the issue they are not doctrinaire, but literary blocks in the structure of Russian unity and heroism. Tikhonov's poem, "The Hunter," depicts movingly a type national hero, while Mikhail Zoshchenko's "The Scarecrow" is a bitter-satire on the Nazi mentally...
...young man complete with a crew haircut. Out of Pierre, S.Dak. and the University of Washington, at 25 he is a veteran of naval flying. In the battle of the Coral Sea, flying from the ill-starred Lexington against a Jap carrier, he won the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism and conspicuous devotion to duty." Last week the Navy credited him with a remarkable record in another ocean against another foe: Germany's U-boats...