Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Cooke, a hardened soldier himself, started with much the same idea ("I didn't know enough about psychoneurosis to find the word in a dictionary"). But his assignment from General Marshall was to "seek the neurosis in its lair"-and he found it among some of the bravest troops. In an eminently readable book (All But Me and Thee; Infantry Journal Press; $2.75), he now tells what he reported to General Marshall...
Katherine Marshall began to glimpse her new husband's extraordinary military qualities when she followed him to Fort Moultrie, S.C., where he commanded the 8th Infantry, in 1933. "No detail was too small for his attention, no soldier too lowly. ... If the post was shabby, with poorly kept grounds, he began fixing up his own garden and lawn; and within a few weeks all the lawns and gardens down the line began to take on a different complexion. There was never a word said, rarely an order given...
...last time Harvard and Yale met together on a field called Soldier's to play football it was November, 1941, and Pearl Harbor stood in the wings waiting for her December cue. In a sense, that game was a capstone of the Years Between the Wars, of the World as it Used to Be. Before the war engulfed them both, the two schools played one more, as anti-climactic as the other had been a climax, the last gasp of a world that was already dying. Taht year an underdog Crimson eleven saw an upset victory over Yale slip from...
...question of whether the benefits of the GI bill were intended to be a bonus or a contract. Morally, the nation owes the veterans nothing. The men who served their country were protecting themselves, their families, their homes, and their future from a detestable fate which threatened every individual soldier. The whole nation fought the war, and those who were best suited for combat were sent into uniform. The representatives of a grateful nation granted certain benefits to veterans, not as a dutiful remuneration, but simply as a gesture of gratitude for dangerous service well done...
...world heard the heart-heightening story: that ill-equipped Red troops had trapped and smashed 22 crack Nazi divisions along the Volga. This film wrings considerable suspense from a tactical explanation of how the battle was won. War films made by capitalists usually tell their stories from the common soldier's point of view. The Russians, concentrating on their brasshats, have managed to pump excitement into a series of scenes where most of the characters address one another as "Comrade General" and spend most of their time standing morosely around map tables discussing high strategy...