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...following is an excerpt from a letter received from one of my friends who is a serviceman stationed in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...Homecoming. To emphasize this civilian-serviceman barrier of unshared experience, Author Jonas jumps intermittently from the Aleutian action to the miserable frustration of a returned sailor amid civilians who cannot understand what he has no words to tell them. In the downtown businessmen's club the sailor could only play nervously with the silverware when the man said: "Well, how are the boys going to vote?" When the girl spoke out of the darkness: "Don't I mean anything to you at all?" he could only say suddenly, "No, I guess you don't." And when they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Beyond | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...this paragon of virtue that she should set herself up as judge and jury? And what does she know of ... the life of a serviceman's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 3, 1945 | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...number of World War II Medal of Honor winners now stood at 272 (Army 197, Marines 41, Navy 33, Coast Guard 1). This was more than twice the number given for heroism in World War I. But the highest award was still hard to get: only one serviceman in 45,000 had received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: 28 More | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...TIME [July 30] you ran a letter from a serviceman quoting a German woman who said " 'You speak of freedom ... of democracy. We know of your treatment of the American Japanese. We know of your race riots, the underhanded persecution of the Negro and the Jew. At least we Germans were not hypocritical. .'..'" The serviceman had no answer for her. I suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1945 | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

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