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Including his free medical care, food, clothing, tax-free allowances, etc., today's serviceman, far from being inflicted with economic hardship, actually has a higher income (about $4,000) than his civilian contemporary (about $3,700), the commission reported. When he returns to civilian life, instead of putting him at a disadvantage, his training gives him an advantage. World War II veterans, for example, are making more money ($3,978 in the 25-34 age category, which includes two-thirds of them) on the outside, are better educated and own at least as many homes as their nonveteran counterparts...
...become veterans since the act became effective. That number is bound to grow from year to year; there are now more than 3,000,000 men and women in uniform. These figures point up what would be the enormous scope of a holding that Congress could subject every ex-serviceman and woman in the land to trial by court-martial...
...Safeguard of Character. In the course of its inquiries the committee came across a lot of evidence to confirm what every experienced serviceman and ex-serviceman knows: that pride in one's unit is the cement, whether at base, in the line, or in P.W. camps of Korea. "Many servicemen exhibited pride in themselves and their units," the committee reported, discussing the one encouraging portent of the P.W. camps. "This was particularly pronounced where they had belonged to the same unit for years. They stood by one another . . . If a soldier were sick, his fellow soldiers took care...
...concluded: "War has been defined as a contest of wills. A trained hand holds the weapon. But the will, the character, the spirit of the individual-these control the hand. More than ever, in the war for the minds of men, moral character, will, spirit are important. As a serviceman thinketh...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD Dallas ¶ McCarthy signed up with the Marines as a private in January 1942, with orders to report to Quantico for officer training, was commissioned three months later. In the Pacific he was an air intelligence officer and often flew missions in the rear gunner's seat. In March 1945 he applied for and got his discharge from the Marine Corps. Neither the Marine Corps nor McCarthy has officially answered the V.F.W.'s statements...