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High Forties Low Fifties - Humor, Human Interest and Heroics Before and During the Korean War (Hardcover)
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High Forties Low Fifties - Humor, Human Interest and Heroics Before and During the Korean War (Hardcover)
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Shaping the lives of young men in college who would answer their
nation's military call in the Korean War, were the sage veterans
from World War II. The vets became the mentors for the male
freshmen at The University of Texas in 1947 and '48, and these
young men would later be called to arms in the Korean conflict
beginning in 1950. The war began in June, less than five years
after the cessation of hostilities of World War II-and the American
public was not ready for a new and major conflict to be thrust upon
them. The draft of young men was instituted, and therefore many
thousands of young Americans served during one of the bloodiest of
wars. Balancing tragedy with humor, anecdotes of the period make
for interesting reading about an era where stress, crime and drugs
were subjects rarely mentioned in America on the home front-plus
school violence was unheard of. Of course, there was no television
in the'40s, and very little central air-conditioning in the early
'50s. Still, it was a very pleasant era, good music abounded and
folks often gathered around the piano to sing. High Forties, Low
Fifties describes the easy times but takes the reader overseas to
the war that suddenly breaks out. The hi-jinks of college life
described segue to the chaos of the Korean conflict, and the reader
is treated to heroics and humor in the nonfiction book.
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