Word: homesick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secure the Peace." Tardily, after the unsoldierly hubbub of homesick G.I.s had reached a stage of near-mutiny (TIME, Jan. 21), Chief of Staff Eisenhower had forbidden any more soldiers' demonstrations on pain of court-martial. Now he told why he had put the brakes on demobilization and thus touched off the rumpus...
...first editorial: "Everybody else seems terribly upset . . . and I discover I feel fine about it."' Reason for feeling fine: 1) the auto strikers' solidarity; 2) the "exciting new note of unity" in the telephone and wire strikes; 3) the lack of complacency among industrialists; 4) the homesick G.I.s' "refusal ... to be content with the malarkey." Summed up happy Veteran Ingersoll: "I am sorry if I am out of step, but all this 'unrest' feels good...
...tremendous appetite for the feast of peace it saw ahead-but it suffered from gas on the stomach. The belly-rumblings last week were audible. Labor yelled: "Fascism!" Management yelled: "Socialism!" Homesick G.I.s made unsoldierly uproar around the world (see ARMY & NAVY), and the prestige of the U.S. Army went down like a falling star, carrying the nation's prestige with...
Action by Mob. It was true that most of the men still in uniform (the Army has already released 5,000,000) had seen little or no fighting. But they could be just as homesick as men who had. Most of them, even many of the officers, were conscripts and they had never had any liking for soldiering. They were frustrated by idleness. They had never fully understood why the war was fought. To most of them no one had ever bothered to explain the Army's postwar job. Many who had heard explanations of a sort thought...
...between Tientsin and Chinwangtao, four hours a day, Pfc. John J. Janes of the U.S. Marines stands guard at "Bridge 21." A husky young veteran from Grafton, W.Va., wounded at Okinawa, Janes is one of 47,000 marines now on duty in China. Like most of them, he is homesick and his morale is low-for a marine, very...