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...have been "the Bag of Bagdad." There is an Aladdin (John Qualen) whose companions jeer: "You've told that lamp story so often you believe it yourself." There is a Sinbad (Shemp Howard) whose refrain is: "This calls to mind an experience I once had as a sailor." And there is a harem which does bumps and grinds and makes the standard Hollywood harem look as well clad as a winter army on the Russian steppes...
...religion remained Chaplain Williams' prime function. He summed it up last week: "Religion, to be of importance to the soldier or sailor, must have something convincing to say to them about the meaning of God and the meaning of their own souls. . . . The chaplain who talks to his men about God will be respected and listened to. The chaplain who uses his few precious minutes talking about the wickedness of shooting craps will be largely ignored. When men are living cheek by jowl with death they rapidly get down to essentials. Religion...
...back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
...unpreparedness for war, its most satisfactory aspect was, v the U.S. ability to act in the face of disaster. Today Pearl Harbor is one of the most strongly defended fortresses on earth. The Arizona still sits on the bottom near Ford Island, a mute monument which many a sailor apostrophizes thus: "You bastards, you haven't paid enough for that yet." The ugly, rusty keels of the Oklahoma and the old Utah are still turned up to the bright Hawaiian sun, just as they rolled bottom-side up a year...
...Army & Navy well know the importance of news-from-home to the soldier and sailor and marine away-from-home. From every direction came evidence that the American away from home is the most homesick man in the world...