Word: platooner
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Only one person loves the war lover, an orphaned Korean boy named Charlie (Tommy Matsuda). A bruising struggle to mold Charlie's developing personality begins between Endore and another private, Loomis (Robert Redford). Loomis is a rookie in the platoon, a man for whom war is a strange, unreal interlude to be borne with fortitude, but no elation...
...idol, Loomis sadly senses that he is losing the battle to turn the boy into a humane being. When the cease-fire comes, Endore goes hopelessly psychopathic and heads for the hills with his knife, and Charlie. This jeopardizes the cease-fire agreement, and some of Endore's platoon mates volunteer to bring him back. When they track him down, he adamantly refuses to return. "Come back," coaxes the C.O., "the war is over." And Endore, speaking from the depths of his profoundly disturbed personality, answers "Which war?" In an ensuing scuffle Endore is cut down by a bullet...
...draftees assigned to Sergeant. Robert Gardner's platoon in 1951 at Fort Riley, Kans. Gardner was a dedicated soldier: proud, confident, strict and demanding. In 2½ years in the Army, I never met anyone more dedicated to duty and country...
...thrust bunches of white flowers at the cavalcade as it passed; urchins broke from the throng, squealing "Meester Kennedy. Meester Kennedy." One youngster even carried a reassuring sign: "We play touch football." Above the shouts came the wild music of 300 Mariachi bands-along with the tootles of a platoon of organ grinders lined up at one intersection cranking out their own hurdy-gurdy serenade. As the presidential procession headed toward the Avenida de la Reforma, 10,000 troops presented arms, and rows of firemen snapped to salute with brass shovels. At historic Zocalo Square, the bells of the 16th...
...four months, pushed from behind by a hearty, pistol-packing captain whose notion of boldness is to commit his men without sufficient support. So far, casualties have been light. But good luck has been strained to the breaking point. So have the men of A Troop's second platoon...