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...Gastil confuses the CRIMSON's premises with his own. The CRIMSON's editorial had nothing to do with gaining peace by dominating the world, and it specifically stated that UMS was not an attempt to match Russian forces soldier for soldier. Nor is UMS an attempt to regiment anyone or to turn American boys into automatons. Serving under military discipline for two years would hardly reduce men, brought up in a country where freedom and individuality is guaranteed, to the low level Mr. Gastil assumes...
...Reserves between the wars, and, in 1940, when most of his fellow Wall Streeters were moving to their first jobs in Washington, he was called to active duty as a colonel. Asking for combat duty, he was eventually sent to the Pacific in command of the 136th Infantry Regiment, but when he got to Hawaii, he was called back by the Pentagon to supervise the growing problem of contract terminations...
Halsey McGovern's two sons, both Army lieutenants, died heroes' deaths in Korea. Robert, 23, of the 5th Cavalry Regiment, fell on Jan. 30, 1951 when his platoon was trapped on an exposed hillside. Severely wounded, his carbine ripped from his hands by a machine-gun burst, he had charged the enemy alone, hurling grenades until he fell. His avenging platoon swept over the enemy with fixed bayonets. Jerome, 21, 2nd Infantry Division, was killed twelve days later as he rallied his men in the face of murderous Communist fire. In due time, the Army announced that Jerome...
Died. P. R. Crump, 104, Alabama's last veteran of the War Between the States; in Lincoln, Ala. Enlisting in the loth Alabama Regiment in 1863, he saw action in the Virginia campaign, witnessed General Lee's surrender...
SEPTEMBER-Demand & Supply. In Korea, the 2nd Division's 38th Regiment requisitioned a generator and two typewriters, received a candle and two pencils...