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Brusque, 28-year-old Lloyd Gruver, a West Pointer with seven MIGs to his credit, is ordered by the squadron medic to take a rest in Japan. Confident that he belongs to a superior race, Gruver at first is disgusted to see American boys taking an interest in and even marrying Japanese girls with butterball shapes, burlap dresses and gold teeth. But he soon serves as best man at a Japanese-American wedding, and the groom, an airman from Gruver's outfit, drops a tantalizing hint: "G.I.s married to Jap girls always look as if they knew...
Last week Sammy Lee received some news that left him "a little embarrassed, but darned proud." He had won the A.A.U.'s James E. Sullivan award as the nation's No. 1 amateur athlete in 1953. Sammy was embarrassed because he was so busy being an Army medic that he never even got his feet wet in diving competition last year...
...small number of progressives-seven from one camp-were staying with the Communists. Most of the "pros" coming back appeared to be confused rather than dedicated men. Said an English medic captured with the Gloucesters: "Yesterday I knew the answers. Today I'm all mixed up. I read that pamphlet they gave us at Panmunjom-you know, the one that gives the aims of the U.N. Gentlemen, I've got a lot of thinking to do in the next few weeks...
...eventually, he understood why a medic threw himself between a patient and a grenade. He understood the private who could have abandoned his hole, but stood up throwing back Chinese hand grenades before they exploded-until he misjudged one. And the corporal, with four bullets in his chest, who was told: "Take a stretcher; you'll die if you walk down." "Yeah," he replied, "send four guys back to carry me and they'll all get clobbered. I'll make it." And he did. Those were the cool heroes, sacrificing themselves, not to "halt aggression" or "fight...
Sergeant James F. Daniel of Alameda, Calif., also a medic, kept records of the deaths he verified in two camps during 20 months of capture. The Chinese took the records away from him, but "I remembered the figures." Exactly 2,538. mostly American. "It was just starvation and disease," said he. "We could always feel the lice crawling over us." Care got better and fewer men died after the Korean truce talks began...