Word: soldiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million veterans of World War II were back; seven million were at work; 2,100,000 were at school or on vacation; 83,607 were hospitalized. The country had promised to cushion the shock of their return and the country, for the most part, had made good. No soldier could deny that...
...Soldier Bradley had other, more immediate problems. Nobody but a fool would have wanted his job, and Bradley is no fool. A friend said to him: "Inside of two years they'll toss you out of your office window right on your face. And you'll land so hard you'll bounce." His friend had in mind the politics and pressures which swirl around "the country's second lousiest job." Colonel Charles Forbes had retired from the job in 1923 to a federal penitentiary, convicted of selling contracts. Forbes's successor, honest, penurious Brigadier General...
...Confidence." Essentially the VA is an enormous business and sociological enterprise-and Omar Bradley is neither sociologist nor businessman. But he has other qualifications-a professional soldier's careful mind, a straightforward approach to his tasks, a reassuringly homely character. His is a steady hand...
There is a quality of greatness about 53-year-old Omar Bradley-in his plain face and his sense of humanity. Once, musing on a soldier's life, he observed that he had spent 30 years training himself to make decisions which would cost human lives. "You don't sleep any too well from it," he said quietly. Now the General's job is patching up shattered lives and straightening out war's endless disorders. The hazards and responsibilities of this peacetime assignment, in some respects, are greater than any he ever had in wartime...
Some termite species cultivate fungi, feeding their young upon them. If enemies attack the colony, soldier termites rush to repel them. In relation to the colony, individual termites are utterly selfless. They never loaf, never sleep. They are ceaselessly busy in community service. Except for the king & queen, they never fall in love. There is no individualism in a termite colony...