Word: khakies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a Great V. The committee took time off for homage to French resistance. It was the third anniversary of the day Charles de Gaulle left his defeated homeland, hung up an extra pair of pants and four khaki shirts in a cheap London hotel room, and rallied his stunned countrymen with the words: "France has lost a battle; but France has not lost...
Close by, two buglers play taps. The Chaplains put on their caps and the graveyard bulldozer huff-puffs again, pushing mounds of cold Attu earth over the khaki-clad bodies of eight U.S. soldiers...
After fingerprinting, the bodies were carried through the identification tent and wrapped in khaki blankets tied at three places: around the neck, the waist and the feet...
Last Psalm. Three Chaplains are standing over eight khaki-blanketed bodies. The bulldozers stop digging and their drivers uncover as the services begin. But the dozens of tractors on the muddy roads and beaches a few hundred yards away continue their clanking and chuffing...
...Chaplains begin to sing, the first verse, then the third verse of Rock of Ages, The ranking Chaplain (of 13) on Attu, Lieut. Colonel Reuben E. Curtis, a Mormon from Salt Lake City, opens his khaki Bible and reads "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. . . ." He prays: "O God, great and omnipotent judge of the living and the dead, before whom we all are to appear after this short life to render an account of our works, lift our hearts, we pray Thee...