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again and in my party was a Notre Dame feotbell player whe said his feet were
killing him. About neon he waa ebeut shot and his feet were so bed that he had
to be picked up in a truck. That meant 20 points against him, in addition te
losing his standing among the fellews. He said, "Kanaga, the fellows sure gave
me a heat, didn't they?" And I said, “Sure, they lest a let ef their respect for
you". He had teld the fellews vetere that it tock the big, tough men to get aleng
in the Marines. Wo one ever goes te sick bey without a real reason - if he does
the fellews oall him a "gold-brick", |

We have spent five rugged months, whichwe beeen by running ebstacle
courses, bayonet courses, and enlis thenies with rifles. Gradually more equipment
was added, until we were doing a1] of these leaded with full equipmeat, Ths’ wb-
 staele course was very mush like the ene you have here at K.U. These fellows ought
te take a eouple of hows of conditioning every duy te reelly cot in Whape. No man
in the University should be exempt, regardless of his desire er physical condition.
This is a national emergency, and it is a miter of life er death. During the five
months spent at Quantico we have learned much of Japanese taitien: A British
colonel whe had been at Dunkirk, Burma and Malay teld us he would rather fight the
Germans than the Japs any time. |

There were ateut 20 former all-American college football players in my
company. A follow at tims hits reck bottom, but you can't quit. You feel dis-
couraged because all ‘the time it is thrown in your face thet you may not make the
grade. They bounced shout forty out of 160 in the candidates class in the first
ten weeks. The first/wecks might be compared to mxfxaxk fraternity life for a
freshman. The Marine ‘Sergeants are teugh, and a fellew takes punishment for a
let of little things. I Learned/o koe my mouth shut. We have te shine our
shees abeut five times a day. One big sergeant found a boy whe didn't have his
shees shined, and when he locked at mine I said, "I've got mine shined up pretty —

fi
geod". I think this irritated him, because he said they didn’t look any tee good

te him, and I was given ‘two hours ef heavy saligradtig orders just for mouthing off.