Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Ours was the War Class. More properly speaking, it was a war class, for those before and after went, as we did, almost to a man. Some 90% of our class --or practically every man not rejected as physically unfit--served in our army or navy or in those of allied powers. The great majority volunteered while in college or immediately afterward. Of all who enlisted, more than half saw service in France or at sea in the face of the enemy--a proportion far larger than that of the army and navy as a whole. In proportion to members...
...happened to think that if you believe in anything you ought to believe in it All The Way. And because they believed--as some people still do-that the job they had taken in hand was worth doing, they went about it in a workmanlike way. They were first-class men-at-arms--grand shots who knew enough to keep their heads down and lay off their canteens. They had hard feet and a hard and very simple faith: :The country is in a war. Anybody can start a war. But it takes us to finish...
...whose doorstep the arms of Washington came into being; whose sons were foremost among the resolute, skilled and fire-hardened men who turned the tide at Gettysburg; whose undergraduates and graduates when out by thousands in 1917 saying, in the words of President Lowell's Baccalaureate Sermon to our class, "There is a sound of a going in the tops of the trees, and we must bestir ourselves ... believing that it is a call...
Signed by the following members of the Class...
...being a tall and rugged forgotten man, gets the Indiana farm-girl on the first bounce. George Raft has been just as tough in many another picture, Joan every bit as voluptuous, but the story is slightly original, with the result that the picture hangs precariously over the mediocre class...