Word: loist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on your article, "DDay in Europe" [June 8]. It brought back many memories for me. I was a member of the 502nd Parachute Regiment of the loist Airborne Division, which dropped in the area of St. Martin-de-Varreville on Dday...
...says, "but in the war I was completely disenchanted with the people in the mass, and by the same token developed a great respect for the individual. And I think I learned also the practical aspect of standing in line for something." Springfield (Mass.) Architect Francis Liberatori, 39, paratrooper (loist Airborne) who lost the use of both legs in Normandy, reflects something about a new quiet kind of patriotism: "I learned some useful things about men and about my country in the war. And those things I don't forget...