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Show .B. . . j " ''..I. V ..J : .1 - -.v -: . . . . - . .--... - 4 ' , '-,. .;v. -i-T i V', v.,v , - t-- ; c jc SOLDIER'S FOXHOLE DIVERSION Private Vincent Costante at Fort Benning, Georgia, models a sculptured likeness of the girl back home. Active service in the foxholes has no terrors for the United States Army soldier of 1942. Possessed of talent, ingenuity and a will to win, he finds diversion wherever he may be. It is an old American trait. At Valley Forge after a dreary winter had passed the Continentals played a game which since has been evolved into baseball. Confederate cavalrymen with "Jeb" Stuart rode their best when they joined in rollicking song, and veterans of the old 155th Pennsylvania Infantry used to tell of their lively card games on the rocks of Little Round Top during Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. It's the same indomitable spirit that so long has kept chins up over on Corregidor. |