Word: presidio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking down on the ocean from the Presidio, San Francisco's history-encrusted Army post, Master Sergeant Leo P. Day saw what happened next. "I could see the boy in the foaming red water, shouting and signaling someone to 'go back, go back.' Then I saw the girl, swimming toward him, completely ignoring his warning. It was the greatest exhibition of courage I have ever seen...
Just before Albert Kogler lapsed into unconsciousness, he whispered: "I love God, and I love my mother and I love my father. Oh God, help me." Two hours later, in the Presidio's Letterman General Hospital, he died...
...Army, Major General William F. Dean, 56, top-ranking hero of the Korean war and for three grisly years a prisoner of the Chinese Reds, packed his military gear for retirement this week. Highlight of Medal-of-Honorman Dean's last parade at San Francisco's famed Presidio: the award of a combat infantryman's badge, which he missed...
...longer be acceptable." But the Department of Defense and the Commander in Chief felt differently, and next month, after the first vacation in his Army career, Old Soldier Dean, 54, will be back with the troops as deputy commander of the Sixth Army, at San Francisco's Presidio-where, 30 years ago, he raised his right hand and said: "I, William Dean . . . do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same . . . and that I will well...
...illness as cancer passed their diagnosis on to the Atomic Energy Commission, for whom he worked. The AEC, fearful that Twitchell might disclose atomic secrets during periods of delirium, promptly moved the young engineer into a private room in the Letterman Army Hospital at San Francisco's Presidio. Last week William Twitchell died, thereby at last escaping the 24-hour-a-day surveillance which specially screened male nurses had maintained over him for the past two months...