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I think I see where you are coming from Janet. Having a respite from the
war, would a person want as little as possible around him to remind him of
that war?
I was evacuated before R&R was granted, but I think if you take any
kind of trip you would enjoy it more if your companions are people you
know, and like. I think it would give guys something to talk about when they
returned to the combat zone. "Hey! Do you remember that cute little girl at that
geisha house?"
I remember a lot of them.
I was stationed in Japan after I came out of the hospital. I saw a lot of
guys on R&R. They tended to be a belligerent bunch, but I think they
respected my Combat Infantryman Badge, and I never had any trouble with
them.
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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 4:26 PM
Subject: R & R
Hello All,
I've another of those "back in the day" questions for any
who care to help.
There was a HUMRRO study done during the war which concluded
that combat soldiers often prefered an R & R buddy different from their
combat buddies. ( I can't argue the results, because I haven't seen
the study, only a reference to it.) However, it started me
wondering. In most of the memoirs I've read the authors who wrote about
R & R didn't seem to be going on leave at the same time as other of their
unit members, OR they often complain that R & R didn't come around as it
was supposed to.
So, I think my questions are: In your experience did R
& R work as it was supposed to? If you had the chance for R
& R, was it possible for you to *choose* who you would go with?
Given the chance would you have chosen your combat buddy as an R & R
companion?
Thanks for your help.
Janet
"Well behaved women rarely make
history."
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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