Word: macked
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...came to Harvard in 1943 from Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the upstate Adirondacks, where tuberculosis patients flocked to take the cure in health resorts--"people with tuberculosis were our industry-like a steel mill or a fabric mill," he says. Mack left just before antibiotics developed during the war crushed the town's economy beyond repair...
When he came to Harvard in the fall of 1943, Mack lived in Adams House, the only civilian dormitory in a militarized campus...
While many of his classmates entered the Navy's V-12 program--which allowed them to stay on at Harvard with a change into sailor's suits and classes in naval science--Mack committed to the Army after the end of his first year...
...skier since childhood, Mack enlisted in the 10th Mountain Division, which trained in the Colorado mountains and on the Texas plains for an assault up the backbone of Italy...
...Mack was mule skinner--"that's a mule handler; some people envision me taking the hide off of mules"--and then a radio operator in the 10th, earning the Bronze Star for carrying a radio to a unit cut off on the front line. By the German surrender, he was north of the Po river in the Italian Alps...