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Back with his unit, he goes through a process of selection and weeding, in search of his aptitude. The adjustment to Army life is difficult; and his own quirks must be ironed out. If he misses a sweetheart or newlywed wife, he is given some good hard labor to sweat his affection out on. If he is homesick he is granted frequent furloughs. If he is a recluse, he is trained in community spirit and team play...
Often the dark stalwarts of the 41st sing while marching at attention. In regimental reviews, they like to sweep past at the double-quick, their faces ashine with sweat and pride. As working engineers, they built three swimming pools, also six concrete bomb shelters for artillery observers at Fort Bragg. They also created a 25-acre lake and use it for landing exercises and practice in assault boats. A kibitzer at this drill last week was New York's Congressman (and Reserve Colonel) Hamilton Fish Jr., who was an officer in a Negro regiment in World...
...British had almost no heavy equipment in Crete, so they did not have to worry about preventing that from falling into enemy hands. The only thing to get off was men-straggling, struggling men with dried sweat and dust caked in their beards, clutching water bottles as if they were purses of gold; men who had had nothing to eat for twelve days but grimy cold food; men half-crazed with fatigue, who had fought at night and been hounded by day; soldiers of defeat who nevertheless were still sure they could beat the Jerries man to fighting...
...thousands of fellows like me" strikes me as very shallow thinking. A lot of fellows like him offering to work for nothing, or taking sides favoring the owners of concentrated wealth, who unlawfully refuse to bargain collectively as against the real workers who earn their bread by the sweat of their honest toil did not and never will break any depression or save our democratic country from Nazi control at home by concentrated wealth...
...permit, in asking a policeman for the time; Steiners utter lack of interest in the world's news ("For someone swimming under water . . . the color of the fishes isn't important"); the man who stands at a Paris police window seemingly in perfect nonchalance, streaming with the sweat of terror; a magnificent passage in which Steiner watches Germany swing past his train window in the dark; Steiner's observation that for exiles "simply eating together almost takes the place of home and country...