Stories from David T. Daniels
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Basic Training
A SNAKEY ENDING I began my second year of college in September 1942. With mandatory infantry ROTC in place my first semester was shortened ...
NO GOLD BARS FOR ME
At the end of 17 weeks of basic training, those of us that were pulled from college ROTC were given two choices. One was an immediate transf...
MILITARY - A SHORT STAY AT HOM
I arrived from Europe at home in later June, 1945. My mother, a very stern person, never commented to me by letter, anything she heard about...
MY COMBAT EXPERIENCE Author:
It was December 15, 1944 (I figured out this date many years later) when a mortar shell blast sent me into a wall where my neck and right sh...
Back to Action
Around the beginning of March, I got into a small van along with 3 or 4 and drove away from the hospital in Axminster. I wasn’t really cur...
POST WAR MILITARY REMINDERS
After discharge I closed my mind to everything that happened for three years. I never looked up an old army friend nor did I join any of the...
The Strange Thirties
“The Martians Are Coming” As we entered the decade of the thirties and I became 6 years old, I felt that something seemed strange or w...
The Increasing Stature of Wome
Amendment number 19 of our Constitution was ratified in 1920. It said that no citizen shall be denied the right to vote by the United States...