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...Please God, by Christmas our lads will have taken another town and I will sit down with them and eat chow. They won't have a tree but while they're eating they'll be thinking of the tree in the living room back home. Some kid will make a joke and all the guys will laugh but it's not the kind of laugh they used to have when they were with their folks. And after chow they won't ask me to sing Jingle Bells or Ball Game. They...
...good, because it took away the idea that this war was any different than what we had been trained for. You can't kid the infantry; they know they've got to go in and do the fighting; and Bradley was an ex-infantryman. It inspired confidence...
While we're still searching for the hard luck kid seeking priorities on the western frontier, the smug expression of Romeo Ray Wibble and many others too numerous to count are worth noting. There is a general "attitude" of complete satisfaction all around as we finish the finest leave since way back...
...Harvey 47-year-old Frank Fay is playing his first straight Broadway role since he was a kid. As he sees it, he is playing entirely against himself: "There isn't a single Fay line in the whole part." But the performer with the large, tired face and the vague blue eyes is at least as distinctive as Elwood-and perhaps as quirky...
...Tree. Joe traveled 150,000 miles, played in jampacked halls, hospitals, gun emplacements, rainy ditches, jungle outposts. Once he climbed Canton Island's sole palm tree to entertain the solitary G.I. on lookout duty. Sometimes Comedian Brown would mutter prayers: "Listen, God, this is your kid...