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having t.he old lady jump in on us with eighty-fl ve suitca&e8. But I told her about Burke jWlt. before she A s lory lhal offe rs lhis un left. I wiIJht. I hadn't of. JUlInitu, she uin't, no ordinary UAN I'1'A, 8he'8 always dragging me to a million as sail a hle rC(' ipc fo r pc nna n c nl dume. If !Jhe 8008 a dead rat laying in the road, s he movie., and we 800 t h(06e here shows all about wedded blilSS : Ilon ' l n evcr marry II Larl.8 smacking you with her nst.8, like!U if it was you JT war and stuff, You IlOO II lot of real handsome that run over it. So I' m 80rry J told her about Burke, guys alway8 getting shot pretty neat, right where it n o d u m e unlil you find o n e w h o sort of. I jWlt figured it'd etop her from making me go don't spoil their loob none, and they always got to aU them war moviea all the l ime. But. I 'm 8O"'y 1 plenty of time, before they croak, to give their love to wi ll c'ry over u g u y like Burke . t.old her. Juanita, she a in 't no ordinary da me. Don't some d oll back home, with who, in the beginning of never marry no ordinary dame. You can buy the the pitcher, they had a real eerioUB misunderstanding ordinary dame a few beel'8, maybe trip the light fan. about what dre. she 8hould ought to wear to the all around the guy's box, making speeches and wearing tasLict with them, like that. but don' t never many college dance. Or the guy that's croaking nice and medaJ..s and looking spiffier in mourning duds than them. Wait for the kind that st.arta smacking you with 8low ba8 got plenty of time to hand over the papers m(NJt folks do all dolled up for II party. their fi3t.e when they see a dead t at laying in the road . he captured 01T the enemy general or to explain what Juanita, she eats that .tulT up. i tell her it sure is a H I'm gonna tell you about Burke, J gotta go back the whole pikher's about in the tint place. And mean nice way to croak; then she get. reaisore and saya she'. a long ways, explain a couple of things, like. You ain't time, all the other real handsome gu)'IJ, his buddiee, never going to no show with me again; then next week been married to nle for twelve yeBT8 and you don't got plenty of time to watch the handsomeet guy we _ the same show all over again, only the war'. in know about Burke fTOm the beginning, croak. Then you don't see no more, es.cept you hear Dutch Harbor litis time instead of GuadalcanaJ. I'm in the Army, ere. some guy with a bugle handy lake time off to blow Juanita, she went home to San Antonio yesterday That ain't Tight. l 'U8t.art Over, like. tap!!. Then you flee the dead guy's home town, and to show our kid's hive. to her old lady-better than You hear guy. that come in on the draft kick about around a million people, including the mayor and the the Army, filay how they wiah. they W88 out of it and dead guy'. (oilla and hiadoll, and maybe the President, ILL UST R \Tt; D 8\' CR \IIA31 K AYE back home, eating good. (('.. .."i ...... 1 011 I',,¥e I:'
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talking about, and he was a ugly guy too. SOFT-BOILED SERGEANT He W88 a little lop-eared tra mp with TB on a freight car, He stopped two big ne 00 reason or gorillas from beating me up when I W88 chow again, sleeping in good bunks thirteen yea13 old-jua.l by insulting again-Btuff like that. They don't mean them, like. He was like Burke, only not no harm, but it ain't nice to hear . The as good. It was part because he had TB chow ain't bad and there ain't nothing o.nd was almost dend that made him wrong with the bunks. When I first come good. Bu.rke, he was good when he was in t.he Army, 1 hadn't eat in three days, healthy like. and where I been sleeping- well, that First off, maybe you wou.ldn't think don't matter. whnt Burke d one for me wall the real big I met more good guys in the Army than stuff. But lTUlybe, too, you wo.s never I ever knowcd when 1 W Il.8 a civilian. And siJ:teen yOOI'S old, like I was, sitting on a I .seen big things in the Army. I been G.1. bunk in your long underwear, not married twelve years now, and I wisht I knowing nobody, IICR red of a ll t he big had a buck for every time I told my guys that walked up the barracb floor • wife, Jua nita, about something big I on their way to shave, looking like they seen that's made her MY, " That gives W88 tough, without trying- the way real me gooee pimples, Philly." Juanita, she tough guys look. That was a tough outfit, gets gooee pimples when you leil her and you could take my word for it. Them about 80meLhing big you BOOn. Don't boys W88 nearly all quiet tough. I'd like marry no dame tha t don't get gooee to have a nickel for every shrapnel or pimples when you tell her about BOrne· mua.tard·acar that J seen on them boys. thing big you seen. I t was Capt. Dickie Pennington's old I come in the Army about four yellT8 company d u.ring the war, and t hey W88 after the last war ended. They got me all regulars, a nd they w88n' t. bua.ted up down in my service record lUI being after the war, and they'd been in every eighteen, but I was only s.iJ:teen . dirty bua.inCBB in France. 1 met Burke the first daY, 1 was in. He So 1 sat there on my bunk, siJ:teen was a young guy then, maybe twenty. years old, in my long underwear, crying five, twentY-3 iJ: , but be wasn't the kind my eyea out because 1 didn't unde13tand of a guy that would of ever looked like a nothing, and thoee big, tough guys kept young guy. He was a real ugly guy, s nd walking up and down the barracb fl oor, resl ugly guys don't never look very swearing and talking to theirselves easy young or very old. Burke, he had bua.hy like. And 80 I sat there crying, ill my long F YOU'lIE WEAlUNC a ll Arrow black hair t hat stood up like steel wool, underwenr, from five in the afternoon t ill I 'r ic ... (I b'OOl:/ reason for keep. like, on his head . He had them funny, IJoCven that n ight . It wasn 'L that the guys ing y~ lr chi" 1I11! slopy·like, peewee shoulders, and his didn't t ry to snap me outof it . They d id. head was way too big for them. And he But, like I Baid, it's only a couple of Tile fa ct or the matter is, not had real Barney Google goo-goo-googly guys in the world that really know how only do handilOlIlc Arrow Tie!! eyes. But it was his voice that was to do things. gf'1 &larcd at • .. occlliionally. cra:l;ieat, like. There a in't no other voice Burke, he W88 a staff sergeant then, total ~ tr ll n g(,riI ",ill ask, " Say, like Burke's was. Get this: It was two and in them days staffs only talked to \.!It're did YOII buy that one?" toned. Like a fancy whistle. I guCBB other staffs. I IDea n staffs except Burke. that's part why he never talked much. Because Burke come over to where I W88 throw Tiel! IHlve distinctive But Burke, he could do things. You sitting on my bunk, bawling my hood pall/·rrlS. The rahrics are rich. take a real ugly guy, with a two-toned off-but quiet like-a nd he stood over T ile slx'Cial linin g has one pur voice, wit h a head that's too big for their me for around twenty m inutes, just pose: 10 hdp make II perfect shoulders, with them goo.goo.googly waLching me like, not lIIl:r ing nothing. ' knot every l illle you wear lbe eyes-well, that's t he kind of a guy t hat Then he went away an come back t ie. can do things. I've knowed loti! of Ha nd· again. I looked up at him a cou ple t imes, BOme Ha rry8 thnt wasn 't 80 bad when the and figured J seen about the ug;liest. Arrow Tietl look fine with ony chipe was down, but there never W88 one looking guy 1 ever BOOn in my life. Even shirl ... and ~1H!Cj(lfly fiue witll of them that could d o the big things I 'm in unifor m Burke was no benut, but that Arr(Hv Shirl •. At your Arro" talking about. If a Handsome Harry'S first time I seen him he had on a fancy J ... I",. ',. Mad,. by Cluett, Pea hair ain't combed jua.t rigbt, or if he ain't store bathrobe, a nd in the old Army only body l~ Co. , Inc. heard !rom his girl lately, or if BOmebody Burke could get away with that. ain't watching him at le88t part of the For a long time, Burke jua.t8tood there time, Ha rry ain't gonna put on such a over me. Then, sudden like, he took 5Q good show. But a real ugly guy's jua.t something out of t he pocket of his fancy and ~ • store bathrobe a nd ch ucked it on my • got hilTlllCU from the beginning to the end, Rnd when a guy's just got hilTlllC lf, bunk. It chinked like it had dough in it, and nobody's ever watching, some really whatever it was. It was wrapped up in big things can happen. I n my whole life 0. handkerchief a nd it was about t.he size 1 only knowed one other guy be8ide of 0. kid 's fiat, Burke that could do the big things I'm (Ca,I/'" "ed ..tI l'a6e ' ''' •
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• ...... UIlO .. " ~ I" (:-'- • SHIRTS, UNDERWEAR, HANOKERGHIEFS " ,\Iajor Uru ns tock'& here .. ilh his Walkie-Talkie." * .t/y U. S. WAf .ONOS ANO SJAM' S • BI Tin': S,\TUlW AY EVEN ING I'OST , (C.",ti""edJ,om " 011" Sf} gate. The fclla in thatlittlc house 88id it I looked at it, and then up at Burke. wouldn't be wrote out for {l couple days "Untie them endll and open it up," yet." Myll. Burke MyS, "Get dl"CllllCd , M ac." opened up the handkerchief. In So I got druscd and Burke got d.rr · sed. was a hunk of medals, all pinned T hen he went in the orderly room and by the ribbons. T here WlUl {l come out in about two minutes with bunch of them, and they WlUl the best my name wrote out on a plUlll. T hen we I mea n the best ones. wa lked into town, me with Burke's 'em on ," Burke says, in that medals chiming and clanking around , voice of hia. under my bloWMl , me fooling Jjke a hot for ?" I says, shot, happy like, Know what I mean? ,'!~',J~ust put 'em on," Burke says. " You I w{lnted Burke to fool sort of happy what any of them are?" like too. He didn't talk much. You " One of them wall loose {l nd I h{ld it couldn't never tell what he was thinking hand. I knowed what it WlUl, about. I called him" M iater " Burke . It W{la one of the best ones, all q),OIIt of t he time. I didn't even know you W88 supposed to call him sergeant. But, .. I says. " I know this one. I thinking it over, m08tof the t ime 1 didn't a guy that had this one. A cop call hi m nothing; the way it is when you Scuttle. He give me a handout." think II guy's really hot- you don't Ca ll I give Burke's v.;ho le bunch of him nothing, like 8S if you don't feel you the once·over . I _n most of should ought to get too cl ubby with him . on guys somewherc-s. Burke, he took me to a restaurant. I " T hey all youn?" I 88yS. eat everything like a hol"8C , and Burke "Yeah," Burke. "\VIlat's your paid for the whole t hing. He did n't eat nothing much. , T Mys, "Philly Burns." I says to him, "You a in 't eating " My Burke," he says. " Put nothing. " '~~ medals on, Philly." "I ain't hungry," Burke says. T hen he ~. On my underwear?" I says. Myll, .. I keep thinking about tlilil girl." "Sure," MyS Burke. "What girl?" I Myll. So I done it. 1 untangled Burke's "Thia hero girl I know," Burke says. bunch of medals a nd pinned everyone of " Got red hair. Don't wiggle much when them on my G .1. underwear . 1t wa.s just she walkB. Just kind of walkB stra ight like I got a ord~r to d o it. The googly like." eyed guy with the cockeyed voice told He didn't ma ke no senile to a sixteen me to. So I pinned them on - straight year-old kid. acr08t my chest, and 80me of them right "She just got married," Burke MyS. underneath. 1 didn't even know ellOugh Thcn he sayll, " I knowed her first , to put them on the left aide. Right smack though." in t he middle of my chest 1 put them . That didn't interest. me none, 80 I goes , Then I looked down at them, and I re on feeding my face, member a big, fat, kid's tear run out of After we eu t -or after I eat_ we went my eye and spla.shcd right on Burke's to the show. It was Charlie Chaplin, • Crah de Gairry, I looked up at Bu.rke, like Burke said . H"dso,1 Engines, Equipped with Federal-Mogul fICa red that maybe he'd get 80re about We weil l inside and the lights wlUln 't it, but he j ust watched me. Burke, he out yet, und when we W88 walking down Bearj"gs, Power Laudi"g Craft really kllOwcd how to do big things. t he a isle Burke M id" Hello" to some. Then, whcn 1111 Burkc's medllis was on body. It WI18 {l girl with red ha ir, a nd Precision·b uilt l-iudson /lI l1aller en g ines, p rod uced by Ihe my chell t , I Mt up a little off my bunk, she lItIid " Hello " buck to Burke, a nd she Hud,lO ll M otor Car Com p any, eq uipped with Federal Mogul and comc down hurd 80 that I bounced, was sitting wit h a fella in civvies. T hen sleeve bearings, power swarms of personnel landing craft and 1111 Burke's medals chimed, like me and Burke 8IIt down 8Omewherea. I like church bells, like. I ncver felt 80 tl8kcd him if thaI. Wtl8 t he redhead he was , that carry O UT own and Allied fig hting me n to beach .heads good, Then I 80rt of looked up at Burke. talking Ilbout when we was eating. and invasion. " You ever IlCe n Charlie Chaplin?" Burke nodded like, {lnd then t he pitcher Li ke ma ny o ther power unilS b uilt to the hig hest stand ards of Burke MYS. started. "I heard of him," I 88yS. " He's in I j iggled around in my seat the whole perfo rrn:lIlce. H udson I lIl'aders use Fed ernl.M ogul Sh:el and movie pitchers." show, 80'S people would hear them Bro nze Back Babbilt-lined bearings. T wenty.four h ou l"S a day " Yeah," Burke says. Then he saYII, medals clanking. Burke, he d idn't Slay our six we ll -equipped plants rum out tens of thous.:m ds of "Get drc 'Pd . Put your coat on over for the whole "how, About halfways sleeve bearings, bushings and precisio n parti to equip planes, your medals." through the Chaplin pitcher he says to landing gear, ships. tan lui, torpedoes, trucks. su bmarine. _ " Just right over them, like?" I says. me, "Stay a nd !lee it, Mac, I 'll be out while Federal-M ogul propellers p rovide dependable pro pul_ And Burke says, "Sure. Just right side," over them." When I corne out.aide a fter the show sion on these .same personnel landing craft, a5 ....e ll as the I got up from my bunk with all them I says to Burke, "What's the matter, famous PT bom, and m any others. medals chiming, and looked around for Mr. Burke? Don't you like Charlie W hen the wa r is over , Fed eral-M ogul sleeve bearings will my pants. But I says LO Burke, '" a in't C haplin none?" 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Burke /!.ttyB, "He'8 all right.. Only T I starts to leave again. Burke calls don't like no lunny-looking little guyl! after me, like, " You're transferrin' out alwaya getting chased by big guya. of here tomorrow, Mac. I'm getting you Never getting no girl, like. For koops, . IICnt to the Air Corps. It's gonna be big • like." stuff. " • 'l'hen me and Burke walked back to "Thanks," I saya. camp. You never knowcd what kjnd of Burke, he give me some Jaat advice Star of Columbia's new Tecllnico/or production "COVER GIR'" sad·like thoughts Burke WII8 thinking just as I goes out the door. "Grow up and while he walked, but all I W8JJ thinking don't cut nobody's throat," he says. was, Will he wanllncse hero mala/s back I shipped out of that o utfit at ten right away ? I alway. hnve kind of o'clock the next morning, and I never wished that I would of knowcd enough IlUW Burke again in my whole life. All that night to My something niCf! like to these yesl'l! I just never met up with him. Burke. I wisht I'd of told him that he I didn't know how to write in them days. was way better than that there redhead I menn I didn't write much in them days. that he knowcd firat. Maybe not that, And even if I would oC knowed how, but I could of Mid IIOmet.hing. "~ unny , Burke wasn't the kind of a guy you'd ain't it'! A guy like Burke (.'Ould live 8 write to. He was too big, like. Too big whole life being n great man, a «.'ul1y for me, anyways. great man, and only about twenty or thirty guys, at moat, probably knowed I never even knowed Burke trallll' about it, and 1 bet there wos n't one of fe rred to the Air Corps himself, if I U 8 that ever kindn t ippt.·d him off about hadn't of got t his letter from Frankie it. And never no women. Maybe a coupla Miklos. Frankie, he waa at Pearl Har_ ordina ry dllm~ , but never the kind that bor. He wrote me this letter. He wanted don' t wiggle when they walk, the kind to tell me about thia Cella with thill crazy t hat !lO rt of walks straight like. Them voice-u master, Frankie Jl8.id, with nine kind of girill, the kind Burke really liked, hUl:lh marks. Named Burke. was stopped by hill fll f..'e and that roUen Burke, he's dead now. H ill number joke of a voice oC hill. Ain't that nice? come up there at Pearl Harbor. Only it \Vhen we got bltck lo the barracks, didn't, exactly come up like other guys' Burke says, " Yo u wnnt to keep them numbeffl do. Burke put his own up. medals a while, don't you, Mac?" Frankie seen Burke put hill own num "Yeah," I Jl8.ys. "Could IT' ~r up, and thill here is what. Frankie "Sure," says Burke. "You can keep wrote me: 'em if you want 'em." The Jap heavy stuff was coming over .. Don't you want 'em?" I says. low, right over the barracb area, and Burke MyS, "They don't look 110 good dropping their load. And the light stufT on me. Good night, Mac." Then he was strafing the whole area. The bar goetJ ill8ide. racks W88 no place to be saCe like, and Frankie said the guys witho ut no big I sure was a kid. I wore them medals guna W88 running Ilnd zigmgging for any of Burke's on my G .1. underwear for kind of Il hulfways dCCt'nt shelter. three wceb straight. I even wore them Frankie said you couldn't get away from when I wa H.hed up in the mornings. And the ZerOli. They seemed to be hunting none of them tough birds ruz7ot.>d me 1I0 ne. special-like for guys that W8ll zigmgging They waH. Burke'll m(.'