Many a veteran of Korea came home angry and bitter about G.I.s' inadequate training. General Van Fleet wrote: "American boys . . . learn . . . only in combat, after three or more heavy battles, during which their casualties from enemy fire are enormously greater than they need be, [if we] could . . . have properly trained them (killing a few) back in the States on maneuvers."
One tough vet felt the same way—only more so. He was Charles C. Anderson, a St. Louis boy whose split home and large family forced him to go to work when...
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