Word: tree
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Creek. They talked with wonder about John Bade, a 22-year-old sergeant from Toledo, who was leaning half-conscious against a tree with three bullets in him when a Red officer walked up, raised his pistol and shot Eade through the eye. The bullet lodged in the back of his skull but didn't kill him, and Eade was back in the States for Thanksgiving. They talked with humor about Lieut. Bill Shiebert of Albany, N.Y., who wants to become a Catholic priest when he gets out of the Army next year. During a sharp fire fight, Shiebert...
...depicted in Revelations. I saw nothing jolly in harping and singing praises forever and ever. But I knew God as my friend and was sure He would provide something better and funnier for small folks to do-like sliding down waterfalls in the River of Life or letting my tree-climbing sister climb the Tree of Life. Now I am 77. My hope each evening is that I may have the bliss of falling forever into a deep, dreamless sleep. To me there is no lure in any imaginable sort of "eternal life." The greatest happiness I have ever enjoyed...
...though he had supported Richard Nixon in the election. One thought he kept with him from the ill-fated 1948 campaign. "The American dream," he said then, "is a dream of the prophets of old-the dream of each man living in peace under his own vine and fig tree." It was a dream that Henry Wallace helped fulfill for every American who lives by the soil...
...Company positions back at the landing zone, diverting both attention and possible aid to the two trapped platoons. Both were virtually annihilated. When relief forces arrived, they found several G.I.s who had been taken prisoner, later shot with their feet tied. One was left hanging head down from a tree...
...close to the ground, caught the point man in both legs; then, veering upward, it ripped into the man behind - opening his stomach and chest and tearing off the top of his head. Another trooper, hit twice, man aged to claw his way almost to the cover of a tree. But bullets chopped him down just as he reached...