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...McLean nailed her colors to the mast on the day New York had its first air-raid alarm. The alarm was false, but Mrs. McLean, already at her "post," declared: "We shall remain on duty for 24 hours. Our Motor Corps and emergency kitchen will be drawn up outside the door ready to rush to any spot where there is a disaster. I have sent women downtown to hunt for tin helmets, and others are sewing armbands on their uniforms. I shall stay here all night...
...syllable by syllable with the other children each morning. He also evinced a precocious talent for arithmetic. But his real education began when he was apprenticed to a firm of ship's chandlers. He began to teach himself after closing hours in his attic room or in the kitchen while minding his employer's baby...
Jimmy Durante got himself made "honorary brigadier general" and honorary head of kitchen police, at Camp Langdon...
Only concession to students' rank: they don't have to do kitchen-police duty or keep their two-man tents in order. But they are drilled solidly in such elementary stuff as rolling a pack, using field glass and compass, managing fire distribution and control...
Ashore at Rosslare people saw a great flash. They thought the light's fuel had blown up. They put out in a lifeboat. In the kitchen of Tuskar Light they found Patrick Scanlon, dying of injuries. They found William Cahill under a pile of debris, unhurt. Above, beside the light, they found Peter Roddy, unconscious. Tuskar Light still shone the way into Rosslare for the skippers of dumpy mail boats...