Word: homesickness
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...than have traveled with all the fellowships, student groups and Cook's tours since World War I. News items and letters from a score of foreign fronts are beginning to tell the story of this worldwide experiment in wartime internationalism. Some of the doughboys like it, others are homesick. Some of their doings are amusing, some rude, some healthy, some sentimental. All are educational, promising a better understanding of the world and its people than the U.S. has ever had before...
...Dear Blue Hills. Daniel Boone was a kinsman ("a mighty poor provider," his wife said). Another Robertson founded Nashville. Others have carried the Twelve Mile Valley customs into the Texas Panhandle and Montana. But as rovers they are permanently homesick. There are old letters in the Robertson trunks as touching as a poem by Burns: "Oh, I long for a sight of the dear mountains. My mind wanders all the time back to lovely Keowee Valley. Oh, the dear cotton fields. Oh, the dear blue hills...
They had volunteered for an unspecified mission. In Libya, most were homesick the first week. But they forgot their homesickness in the rush of battle. Their score: nine German tanks disabled or destroyed; three out of three American M35 still intact. How did they feel under fire? "Well, sir," said one of the new veterans, "you don't have time to feel physically afraid." They had no casualties in battle, but one broken ankle on the trip home...
...Many a homesick or sardonic Northern Negro, writing to Southern friends, says "Ship me a bag of good dirt to eat." Sometimes he means it. Even in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, Negroes and whites send requests to their upcountry friends for a bit of red clay, declaring that black Delta soil is "right bad eating." In certain parts of Mississippi, poor whites will walk miles for a spoonful of dirt from a favorite bank of clay, because it "tastes sour, like a lemon." In other sections of the South, some top their meals with a savory tablespoon of dirt, believing...
Grapevine Discipline. The Army is launching a new safety campaign with posters. Some of the posters point out the differences in the characteristics of different planes. "A P39 [Airacobra fighter] will climb like a homesick angel," reads one. "A bt-13 [Vultee trainer] won't." , Officially unmentioned but part & parcel of the safety campaign is a grapevine disciplinary system. The accident-preventers launch a word-of-mouth report that Pilot Joe Doe pulled a pretty dumb one when he groundlooped that P-4O. Presently the gossip reaches Pilot Joe Doe, who feels terrible...