Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Litter Case!" A youngster with a mop of red hair gritted his teeth as the medics swabbed and cleaned a gash in his left leg; he grinned quickly and muttered...
...Maybe, Father, if you write something, he might know it," suggested a slim youngster with a leg wound. But the writing, like the voices and the questions, stirred no response...
...soldier with the field dressing over his eyes was shifted from his stretcher to an ambulance for another stage of his painful journey from Korea. A blond youngster with a gaping hole in his right thigh was carried under the spotlight. The chaplain tugged gently at the soldier's sodden combat boots and blood-soaked trousers and joked with him about rotation. "I nearly had my time in, Father," the boy said. "I guess I get out a little early." He shivered and flinched as the artillery fired another salvo...
...Cathedral shortly after World War I. The finder is a disfigured, heartsick war veteran named Paul Taggart. He wants to adopt the infant boy, but the boy has been born to a Roman Catholic mother and Taggart is a Protestant. Taggart settles for a lifetime devotion to the youngster, beginning with visits to see him in a Catholic orphanage. The boy in his own turn grows up to suffer wounds and disfigurement in war, but faith and love keep him steady, win him a fine girl...
...nation's flowers emerged from caves and broken buildings. Beside the budding, shrapnel-scarred elms along the streets, they watched. Now & then a youngster clapped or smiled, but mostly they stood with wooden faces, like tired old people who have found life very hard and who take little joy in parades...