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...year-old buddy, Arthur Davidowicz, did not vibrate so alarmingly. He looked wistfully blank at times, at times just old and beaten. "I wish the policeman would've shot me," he said, "I'd of been better...
...Maybe sooner," said the other, "but I won't mind being a policeman for six months or so if the Army sends me to school part-time...
...murder.' A murderer . . . goes out to kill others to gain selfish ends or because of a personal injury he will not forgive. . . . You were called by your country to disarm a dangerous and skillful enemy who [conquers by] torture and murder. . . . I do not call a policeman who must shoot a gangster . . . a murderer any more than the law does. Perhaps in the terrible business of war, murderous thoughts will take possession of us. . . . God, I am sure, will forgive . . . many of our weaknesses...
Rodriguez, onetime cab driver and amateur boxer from Neptune, N.J. and now a military policeman, is famous in the Army. At his first station 200 soldiers signed a petition to the C.O. to billet Rodriguez alone. "I guess I have had more shoes thrown at me than any man in the Army," Rodriguez recalls with mixed sadness and pride. "Even when we went out for battle drill and all dug foxholes together to sleep in, it was the old story. When I woke in the morning everybody else had got out and dug themselves another foxhole...
...State Army when Collins died, commanded the Irish Civic Guard until Eamon de Valera ousted him in 1933, promptly organized the Fascist Blue Shirts in retaliation; in Dublin. "Give 'Em the Lead" O'Duffy, son of a North Ireland farmer, had a voice that could make a policeman jump a block away, the smile of a man who knew he had to keep his eyes open. As president of the National Athletic and Cycling Association, he led the Irish Olympic team to Los Angeles in 1932, five years later marched off with a green-shirted "Irish Army...