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Nerve Center. A few dirt roads had once meandered through Guam's hills. Now three-and four-lane paved highways laced the island, leading from harbor to cold-storage plants, asphalt works and ammo dumps. Spread across the island were neat tent cities where marines lived between campaigns, rest camps where submarine crews breathed the fresh smell of jungles, recreation centers where Navymen played baseball, drank strictly rationed beer. Four Fleet and three Army hospitals could accommodate nearly 10,000 patients, and back & forth along the asphalt highways roll caravans of khaki ambulances with their pitiful loads...
While the past year, and today's Sever Quadrangle exercises, may seem to indicate an approach to reconversion, one peacetime tradition will vanish after this 1945 Commencement: the canvas tent which shades Sever Quadrangle, a canvas which has shaded other Commencements for the past 30 to 40 years and which has been in Harvard's possession for so long that even the Maintenance Department Doesn't know where it originally came from, will be scrapped as a potential danger after this afternoon's ceremonies are over
...truly believe that the spirit lives, and that the corpse is an outworn tent in which it no longer dwells, why not treat it so? But the Prayer Book still commits it to the ground from which it is supposed to come, where it is to rest until the archangel's trumpet summons it to rise incorruptible. We once heard of a funeral which seems far more Christian. The body was buried-or, we trust, cremated-as soon as possible, with no publicity, and a week or so later a memorial service was held in which the friends...
Private Doss had planned to spend his Saturday (the Adventist Sabbath) as usual -in prayer and meditation. His commanding officer came to his tent and asked if he would forego the privilege that day; Doss happened to be the only corpsman available to a company scheduled to attack an escarpment. Doss said: "Captain, it is fine with me, but you'll have to wait a few minutes while I read my Bible here...
...occasion. He donned a freshly pressed battle jacket, with the marshal's baton woven on the shoulder tabs. A tiny gold watch chain stretched from pocket to pocket, under his decoration ribbons. The familiar black beret was at the usual jaunty angle. Monty strolled slowly to the tent where the Germans waited. As he passed the assembled war correspondents he said softly: "This is a very big moment...