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Private Al Schmid of the Marine Corps was facing life, and he was blind. In San Diego Naval Hospital he began his biggest readjustment...
...said. The Red Cross girl, Virginia Pfeiffer, wrote it down. She did not hesitate when he came to the part about breaking his engagement to Ruth "because I don't want to be a drag on anybody." She signed his name, "Al." The Jap bullet that blinded Al Schmid after his machine gun killed 200 Japs had struck far from Guadalcanal...
Last week Al Schmid, Marine cap perched jauntily, stepped off a train on to the windswept Philadelphia station platform. His mother and father were there to meet him. So was Ruth Hartley. He could not see the tears in their eyes, but he heard their voices. He laughed when he felt the shape of Ruth's hat pressing against...
Rivers was dead. Schmid and Diamond lay there motionless. Once a lieutenant braved the bullet barrage to give them a hypodermic; once a hospital corpsman brought water. In the full light of morning, they were helped away...
...Marine Corps tally on Schmid's damage: 200 dead Japs. Said Private Schmid, who had given up a war-plant welder's job to enlist: "My outfit gave a good account of itself...