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Inner Circles: How America Changed the World : A Memoir pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
Haigs and Murphys<br >/~y father, who died five days after my ninth bidhday, was commis-<br >sioned a first lieutenant in the infantry after finishing his studies at the<br >University of Pennsylvania Law School in the spring of 1917. He became<br >a machine-gun instructor in various stateside training camps, but World<br >War I ended before he could be sent to France, His uniform and equip-<br >ment were stored in the attic of his parents house in Merehantville, New<br >lersey. I was still a very small boy, no more than six or seven, when 1<br >found them there--the rakish Anglo-American steel helmet, the gas mask<br >in its canvas pouch marked U.S., the web belt with canteen, first-aid kit,<br >and pistol holster suspended on hooks from the brass grommets, and the<br >scratchy khaki uniform itself with my father s silver bars pinned to the<br >shoulder straps of tile high-necked tunic.<br > Thereafter, on our Sunday visits to nay Haig grandparents, I crept<br >upstairs as soon as 1 could slip away after the midday dinner and quietly<br >played soldier, all alone in that vast, shadowy attic. No adult interfered,<br >least of all my long-suffering Grandmother Haig. I was a rambunctious<br >child who had formerly spent my Sundays racing wildly around the broad<br >Victorian porches of the house with my older sister, Regina. Although<br >Regina was, at that times a bit of a tomboy, she took no interest in hehnets<br >and gas masks, and could not understand my fascination with these<br >wonderful objects. Thereafter, she stayed downstairs in the parlor, where<br >
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Inner Circles: How America Changed the World : A Memoir pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024