Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...situation which called for this action had been worsening for a long time. In the Christian Century, the Rev. Renwick C. Kennedy, an ex-Army chaplain now returned to his pastorate at Camden, Ala. after 20 months in Europe, told the U.S. some sad truths about the occupying U.S. soldier...
...conduct of the average soldier ... was at the least noisy and boisterous. At the worst it was criminal. The average was odious and disgusting...
...Americans. It is not that they actually hate us. It is merely that they have had to put up with so much from us. ... We have been so loud, so boisterous, so crude and often so obnoxious that they will be glad to see the last American soldier leave...
...burning Frankfurt, he remembers,. Garrison Soldier Helmut Lotz killed himself, wife and two children rather than disobey the order to evacuate. "He saw only one way out." In Leipzig, Knauth met a girl with whom he had played as a child. "What have I had out of life?" she asked. "I was 15 when the Nazis came. That is a happy age for girls but I don't remember any happiness. ... I can't remember that I have ever been free of a sense of doom about this country, since the Nazis came. They ruined what they touched...
...case in point: a smallpox outbreak in Seattle (TIME, April 8), touched off by a soldier just back from Japan. Last week San Francisco's Director of Public Health, Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, cried out that the danger of airborne epidemics is real and imminent...