Army & Navy - Whither Thou Goest . . .

One day when Texas weather was at its sultriest, an ambulance clanged up to the big downtown Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, picked up a pretty blonde, not over 19, who was lying on a davenport, got her to Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital just before her baby was born. Later that week the young mother was able to tell her story. She had come from a north Texas town four days earlier to rejoin her husband, a cadet at the San Antonio aviation cadet school. Tired and worn down after fruitless room-hunting, she had spent three nights in...

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