Word: homesickness
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...saying that the U.S. Army abroad consists of "7,000,000 isolationists" got to be a cliché last year. It probably has the faults of most cliches. Last week a TIME correspondent, freshly arrived in Britain from the U.S., told of an impromptu session with hundreds of homesick airmen. What he found was a deep concern in both domestic and foreign affairs, unmatched by anything he had recently seen or heard of at home...
...every theater homesick men would hear the ancient words ". . . and on earth peace, good will to men. ..." and secretly treasure their memories of warmth, love and good cheer. Hundreds of fighting ships would have Christmas trees, flown west from Pearl Harbor. Admiral Nimitz would be visited by a Seabee Santa Claus. Soldiers slogging up Highway 65, near the Fifth Army's Italian front, would see a huge Merry Christmas sign, and a fog-shrouded Apennine pine decorated with 400 colored lights. G.I.s would have Christmas parties for children in France, England, Italy, Iceland, the Philippines; and each father could...
...Homesick U.S. fighting men are guardedly skeptical about the plan to give them furloughs home after they have served a certain period overseas. So far, it has been little more than a plan. But the plan was very much on the minds of a pair of war-weary marines who recently captured a Jap, whole and fairly hearty...
From the Myitkyina station, recognizable only by untidy heaps of shrapnel-torn cars and scarred trees, the homesick locomotive man jiggled his train off over two streaks of rust into the thick, green jungle. Scaring up small clouds of fabulously colored butterflies, the train passed what the bombs had left of a small white church, a row of Chinese graves, a smashed Jap cannon, then rolled on over swamp-spanning bridges to a line of deserted dugouts, a small American cemetery, at last to the Mogaung terminal...
...most heartwarming homecoming of the week was reported by Helen Kirkpatrick of the Chicago Daily News, which also cheered homesick U.S. tourists and expatriates before the war with a Paris edition in English. Of her discoveries at 21 rue de la Paix, she wrote...