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Show PaileCariee IN THE spring of 1944 Gerald G. Price. 323 South 12th Street. Vn Buren, Arkansas, was attending Air Force College Training it Cedar City, Utah. His objective was to earn his wings and become a pilot. He had been tn training about three months. One morning, a morning he says he shall never forget, he was called out of his classes and given a telegram from the Commanding Genera) of the Air Force. The essence of the message was this, "You men who came rrom the ground forces will be returned to the branch of service from which you came. The ground force needs you. The air force has all the men we feel we will need to finish the war." That message Included him. He had previously spent nine monthi in the infantry. He faced one of the greatest disappointments of hli life. He didn't want to give up his flying career. He didn't want to go back Into Uie Infantry. For . . ... ulcjjij. no uiuu i cai wen; ne didn't ileep well. On the fourth day he got a letter CARNEGIE xrom a close friend and former school mate who was In England after having been seriously wounded In conflict. Ai he read bli letter ha remembered a small clipping that someone had pasted on the side of a bandsaw In the furniture factory where he had once worked. It read: "I was without shoes, and I complained until I met man without feet " This was the first time he had thought of that verse since be had read U many months before. Now. when he thinks he is In trouble when it seems that he is struggling along without shoes, he Hops and ' look! around And he finds he need not look far before he finds someone some-one who i struggling along without feet. |