THE PREFACE A fireplace holds all the meaning of comfort and home, The heat it radiates is not just the heat of a flame but the kindling of a spirita spirit of joy; a feeling that everything is normal. I think that the University tl:lda:,'-lll.,'it like a huge, glowing fireplacereflects that same general atmosphere of narmalitr. The campus is cr.iiang with cnergy. The boys have come back to fan the sparks of activity. At last we no longer need to divide the University into civilians and veterans; into the civilian effort and the war effort. We are once again a complete, smoothly functioning institution, The students can direct their cfforts toward accomplishing an academic goal without wondering if and when the world situation will neces- sitate their IO'iiI:'Ig time, limb, or life in the service of their country, Those students who were fortunate enough to be deferred from service and who pursued their learn- ing with Si.lll'.'Eril::,' can now be rtgardr.'d as a true assct to the welfare of America, for in continuing their education, they formed the connecting link in the educational chain. Had the entire student population been diverted solely to J'H.L wiar E TCII ', we NN UIJJII.'! t'l.'I.Tt' fa'll:,l d an oven morc SErj- ous inlerruplim in the u'f.tnr:,.r of education. Knowing the veteran felt that way adds all the more purpose to the victory. And surely the time spent in waiting could not have been too unbearable with that philosophy in mind. Well, philosophy or not, we did wait a long time to come backand we waited eagerly. People have said that we were so anxious to see home that sometimes we lost sight of the cause for which we were fighting. suppose that's true to a certain extent, but World War II did end victoriously for our side and millions of us young men trudged home on freedom road. Some didn't return; some groped as they walked; many limped or were carried. There was sadness for many but for the vast majority of us there was an uncontrollable feeling of joy and happiness. There was a full, comforting feeling of coming back to what was ours; what we had left behind; what we had thought of and dreamt of and talked about and awaited for so many many months and years. We looked forward only to peace and home. We saw no problems of readjustment ahead, We had no doubts about being able to fit quickly and easily into the society we had once left. It wouldn't be difficult to put the strange interlude of the past several years into the recesses of our memory and remember primarily what had been before. I don't think we felt that there had been a great change in us. We were coming back to the Newark and Wilmington and New York and Main Street of 1941, 1942, 1943 .
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