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Many a Marine-from noncoms in the line to the Washington headquarters of General Lemuel Cornick Shepherd Jr., 20th Commandant of the Corps-had come to regard the Korean war not only as a frustrating mess, but as a downright dangerous and softening experience for new troops. "In World War II when you hit a rock," said one indignant master sergeant, "you knew that the enemy was getting your big punch. Here we are holding back. Kids who come up as replacements, even if they are regulars, don't know what the Marine Corps means." A colonel who approved...
...works these days in his big, soft-carpeted office at Marine Headquarters, which stands symbolically above and aloof from the Pentagon, Marine Commandant Lem Shepherd takes a flinty satisfaction in the heft of the weapon at his hand. He has grown up with the "modern" Marine Corps and few of its officers have been so intimately involved in its struggles-both in the field and the congressional committee room...
Scientists & Shoe Factories. In many ways balding, bullet-scarred, 56-year-old Lemuel Shepherd is a stereotype of that curious (to civilian eyes) phenomenon, the modern American general. Like scores of his kind, Shepherd, in war or peace, must be part military man, part lobbyist, and part public-relations man-never too busy to make a speech, receive a Congressman or hold a press conference. He draws his strength from appropriations. His divisions are irrevocably involved not only with scientists and arsenals, but with shoe factories and the New York garment district...
...From 1900 to 1949, the dogs sometimes carried brandy, sometimes tea. Now the dogs no longer do rescue work alone, but accompany men who carry the liquid refreshments them selves. And instead of the old St. Bernard breed, the hospice is using crossbred dogs -part bulldog, terrier and Pyrenees shepherd...
...missionary in Japan when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, but thanks to his widely known charities he was never interned. Later he returned to Korea as bishop and apostolic delegate. There, he denounced the Communist persecution of priests in North Korea. The Communist formula, he wrote, was: "Strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered...