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...Faces. The faces of the missing men stared from the front pages of the county papers, usually snapshots, a little blurred: shots of a blond sailor on furlough, his arm around his best girl; a soldier squatting on one heel and grinning at the camera; a National Guard platoon with an arrow pointing to a blurred face...
Into Sydney and other ports came grim human mementos of the fight already fought. The survivors came back unannounced ; Sydney did not know they were there until three battle-worn U.S. sailor-men turned up at a bar, silently downed their drinks and smashed the glasses. "You better go away," one of them told the inquisitive barkeep. "We're drinking to our shipmates that didn't come back...
...several billions of dollars. Biggest one: $146,000,000. An elderly businessman once brought in a baby dress his mother made him, had it framed for great-grandchildren. Lately a soldier came into the shop looking for a picture of General MacArthur, and met his long-lost brother, a sailor, who was having his marriage certificate framed...
RELATED CIVIL JOBS: Rigger Foreman, Sailor, Hoist Operator...
...States which have yet to arrange for absentee soldier-&-sailor voting are: Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico...