Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marine Smith fought on at Peleliu, was shipped back to Pearl Harbor, for another breather, then shipped out again for the Leyte and Luzon campaigns. He was sent home to California ("They said I was tired and worn out") but he got back in time for the Okinawa campaign and the last days...
When the war ended, rusty old Pat lay in Saipan Harbor, worn out and obsolescent. Soon after, she was ordered home...
Only once in his life had Sergeant Third Class Liu Yun ever worn leather shoes. That was as a Szechwan peasant boy in the year of the bountiful crops. His father had made enough money that season to buy him a pair of shiny black shoes. Liu could still remember how smooth and bright they felt on his stubble-tough soles...
...barracks last week Liu, the peasant's son, came upon the trunk of a captured Japanese. In it he found a pair of hobnailed shoes. They were worn and rough, but they were leather. Carefully Liu drew them on his feet. To his bare ankles they felt smooth and cool as silk. Liu wriggled his toes, walked a few steps, and grinned. This was no dream...
...supper time (fried chicken by the Baptist ladies) everybody else in his party was worn and weary. The President again played the piano, busily signed more mementos, beamed his happiness. Caruthersville's big day was over. To a man it agreed: Harry Truman had had more fun than anybody...