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DOWN ON our comer, there is a triangle consisting of some warped park benches. In the center stands a flag pole, weary of being in the tor- turing sun and shivering cold. lf those benches could talk they would tell you about the gang at the cor- ner. But, since they can't talk, I will e you It is the fellows story I will e First come Ioe He was always teased because of his height He wa about five feet and this compared with the other fellows was short He was a happy go lucky fellow though witnout a care in the world and was always smiling Then theres Warren A swell guy red headed at that He used to use his car Just to go down to the comer to mail a letter Next to Danny He was a riot' Alway wantlng to pitch pennies A tall lanky guy was he In about four strides he could almost circle the whole place Then comes Wally and Bob always willing to beat Danny at pitching pen nies I think Ierry is last He used to sport a gray and blue Buick and how he used to waste gas taking the whole crowd Joy ridmg This happy gang used to go lnto the candy store and Just sit for a couple of hours Im not saying they would spend money no they would just sit and drive Al the owner crazy Sometimes they would amble down to the Italian restaurant and waste a couple of hours playmg card on the tables while waiting to b served Oh how the proprietor used to love them Another hobby of theirs was to go down to the comer Itch and say fall six of theml to the usher Uh we have to look for somebody do you mnd'7 The unsuspecting usher looking up at Danny says 15 Why no, that's okay, go ahead. They would prance in and seat them- selves in the last row and enjoy the movie. It wasn't that they wouldn't pay the admission price, but after all, if a picture is crummy they didn't want to pay 35 cents to see it. or, if they saw the picture before why waste money to see it again? That all happened a long tlme ago Since then came the war and all the fellows went Warren Bob and Wally went into the Army and Danny 1nto the Marine Ioe being too short for any branch of the service stayed home and kept up the other s morale The little crowd was quickly spread all around the globe Wally and Ierry to India Warren to France Bob to Alabama and Danny to Saipan They kept in contact with eaci other telling each how they would do all the things they dxd before the war But tragedy struck the gang when Warren died in France They all felt very bad and were recover ng from that shock when they found out that Danny was killed on Iwo lima Ierry wrote recently Well the old gang IS all broken up now Well never be able to go back to the corner again No Ierry the old gang wont b back but there will be a new gang there and they will do all the things you used to do because thats what Warren and Danny died for S 'Qi HIE? 6 1 f? is--9' IIVHEIIH HONVHTH UMW I, M .W : - I I .-. ... . . . ,.. ,.. .- ..- .. . . I I I I . . I u I . 5 . n D . ' 5 I . U: . . ' . ' I n I. . I . I I . . , - n I 5 ta ' ' ' ' l ' . - ' I ' . H . n . N I T ' I ' n 1 n T T I I . . . t tb L1 . . i . rn . . . Ln , . . . N I I . s . H . ' ' .-C A .annul . ' .ft J ' V1 . I . I W .Ie - . It ,X A I .. 0' .X X 47 , . ' D 5 :X-tgp , . A. , xx, X ' . . sf vu N . f- fl ' . :I I I V X m I .. 7 t - , . N Tai N x ' ' ' I X I V,- X A f .-TL:-lux: 11,5 ' ' qa-fQQ..,.,,, f- II I.4!,1,. . '.-eerw . af -zf.iv'ff,'f 5,:-.1 'Q I . . - it -mzttaQixLr.2-' - , . ,. . . , I . I u , I .. ro ' : . 'M . . ' .
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GRUWINI1 UI' empo me DWG ROSEMARY DIETER ARRIVING HOME on 915 Love Edd1e Th1s was lt Th1s was what Paddy had been hopmg and praymg for for two years seven months and hfteen days Her Edd1e was commg home The tears she had been hold ng back all that time came All her pent up emotlons were suddenly rel1eved and she was crymg for Joy and 1t was wonderful Everythmg was wonderful She took a warm bath and hpped mto her prettlest dress She brushed her ha1r unt1l 1t shone topped 1t w1th a showy flower looked crltrcally 1n the m1rror took 1t off and replaced xt w1th a more conservat1ve one After applymg her makeup so as to mclude just a teensy bit of everythmg Paddy was ready for the last test the long m1rror She found herself sur veylng a sl1ght g1rl who was very pretty and not too sure of herself The young lady about nmeteen kept fussmg w1th her ha1r and appeared very nervous Her ex xtem nt erved to glve an added sparkle to her W fl eyes Her Marlne would fmd her more matur more charmlng a d prettxer than the day he had left her It was exght oclock She would leave for the statlon at e1g lt th1rty and arr ve at n1ne She sat down closed her eyes and tned to thmlc Edd1e and she had been friends all the1r lxves She smlled to recall th bloody nose she rece1ved after re fus1ng to be burned at the stake and that he had been the one to burs 1nto tears when he reahzed what he had done That was the only t1me he had ever h1t her He made her a present of a hornbly mutllated teddy bear wlth one eye and no feet and she dldnt get over the Indian burn for a whole week She was amazed and d1smayed at the change and was glad when she became 1ust one of the gang agam The war came and as soon as he was old enough Edd1e Jomed the Marmes When he heard that he was gomg to be sh1pped overseas they were marned There was no paren tal objectlon She wrote to h1m every day but 1n hrs letters wh1ch were few and far between she sensed change He seemed to be growma her growlng so much more mature than she could ever be The rad1o er1als about the husbands retum ng home strangers to the1r brave wlves and how they lmally were reconc1led wamed ler She drdnt k ow how to be brave the only thmg she knew was nat she loved Edd1e away from It was 915 and the tall ean bronzed man vn front of her was Edd1e He came to her an.l stopped and looked at her He looked sur pr1sed and bewrldered Suddenly 1t was all very clear to her She too had changed The same fears that had troubled her had plagu d h1m too They had both grown up each mn the1r ovnm way But they both felt the same toward the other they al ways had and they always would Now 1f she could only convmce Eddl of Il'l1S She took a deep breath There are d1fferent klds m the school but 1t s stlll Adams and every one works at the war plant but they re stlll your fr1ends and I love you Please belleve me I do It was very dlsgraceful the way Ih1S Manne a grown man was swmgmg that pretty glrl through the a1r but they were so happy and so much III. love that people just had to smlle as they passed 14 11 4- I 1 1 1 1 1 11 , H 1 .1- ' 1 . 1 ' 7 I 1 LZ 1 L I 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 I ' 1 1 1 ' 1 I 1 1 1 1 5 a 1 S ' ' .. 1 ' ' I 1 1 . 1 C I 1.1 1 1 1 ' I 1 1 . ' .I 1 I 1 - 11 - - 11 ' ' 11, 1 . 1 ' ' ,51 I 1. 1 1 1 W I 1 J ' I J - 1 1 ' Q 1 1 1 r I ,. 1 I 1 1 C 3 S 1 1 I rs -..v 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I, Q l vi ' - ' v1 1 -. C 1 11 11 1 1 , 1 1 I . . 1 1 I .. 1 1 Q 1 . I 1 1 . . 9 1 1 . 1 I I I I I 11 1 1 . 1:1 1 V I 1 1 . - 1 1 ' 1 1 1 . 2 1 I 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 f 1 I 1 1 1 1 1 . - 1 1
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