Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wounded Northern soldier, Charles Pander Willard was detailed to tend the lighthouse on Loggerhead Island of the Dry Tortugas reef...
These inmates became friends, as the soldier, Willard, my grandfather, made necessary visits to the prison for his supplies. They exchanged corals for walking sticks, violin bows for turtle shells. Your tintype of Dr. Mudd shows him whittling another cane of hard wood, one of which is in my collection. My grandfather's painting of his lighthouse home, and the little sailboat Jenney of Loggerhead is on my wall before...
...only did that but also put himself in the chorus to sing a few notes. Wilder's part came in the second act for which he discarded his spectacles, donned baggy blue trousers, black top boots, a silver-trimmed cape and a pancake hat. Thus disguised as a soldier, he proved himself an able baritone with his one big line: "Do you expect to find him here in some puddle...
...Rome plenty of fighting was expected but no declaration of war, unless Abyssinia should foolishly oblige by declaring war on Italy. To keep his soldiers happy Dictator Mussolini, once a hodcarrier, ordered Italian employers to pay every worker called to the colors full salary for three months, then half salary for the next three months. Finally every soldier who returns must be given back the job he left this week. On 'change Italian government bonds dropped from...
...find time to journey through Lee's home in Arlington. You should be interested in the home, and oppressed with the whiteness and quiet of the ampitheatre, of the Unknown Soldier, farther up the road. If you journey around to the front and to the tomb, a strange feeling will come over you that makes you want to block the path of the guarding soldier in order to see whether he will walk around you or pass unseen right through your body...