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...until the first bombing that he really found out what fear was like. It came in the middle of a bright, moonlit night while Captain Bliven was working in a command tent. When a stick of bombs exploded close enough to shake the tent and rock the lights, the occupants grabbed their helmets and made for the exit. The third series of blasts found Captain Bliven groping through the canvas passageway...
Most of last week the barometers told kindly, soft-spoken Omar Bradley (whose oldest friends call him "Omar the Tent-maker") that the weather would not be good. He was out a lot himself in the rain and snow, wiping the steam from his glasses, getting plenty of mud on the paratroop boots into which he tucks his G.I. pants. He knew what the cold, dirty, wet and often hungry doughboys were going through. He wanted to get them out of there, and out of the war, as soon as possible. He looked forward to fishing, back...
Last month the girls were touched when an article praised them for sharing the G.I.s' mud and discomfort without a whimper. In Belgium Lieut. Slanger and her tent mates talked it over. That night, by flashlight, she wrote an answer: "We have learned a great deal about our American soldier and the stuff he is made of. The wounded do not cry. Their buddies come first. The patience and determination they show, the courage and fortitude they have is sometimes awesome to behold...
Stars and Stripes published it under the heading "Nurse Writes Editorial." But Nurse Slanger never saw it in print. The night after she wrote the piece, a German shell had ripped into her tent and wounded her fatally. She did not cry, died a half hour later...
...used with dulling regularity; he called upon the citizenry to consider the horrible facts of the public debt, and New Deal bureaus, and unblushingly cried out a warning against U.S. Communists. But with John Bricker, as with Billy Sunday, it was delivery rather than text which filled the big tent...