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Debra's Answer Men
( Continued from page 70) conversation is of some help to those who have written to her.
To begin with what appears to be the Number One sleep-disturber of our times, here’s a letter from a girl in Philadelphia:
Dear Debra: I am sixteen and a junior in high; my fellow is seventeen and a senior. Bob figures that he is going to be drafted soon, so he has been goofing off at school. He’s going to have to make up several subjects so, instead of graduating in June, he won’t make it until next February. He thinks that he might as well enlist now and have it over. I think he should finish school and perhaps go on to college, waiting until his draft board calls. What do you think?
Debra: Dewey Martin, you
broke out of school without graduating, didn’t you? So what do you say?
Dewey Martin: I didn’t graduate, but I did finish my high-school work while I was in service. I got impatient because I’d been hoping for an appointment to the Naval Academy, and I’d been working hard to prepare myself. Then my sponsor died before the appointment came through, and I flaked out. Things seemed in a hopeless mess, so I signed up with the Navy, went to flight school and wound up flying fighter planes in the Pacific.
I think this problem of joining or waiting to be drafted is an individual thing. But I don’t think how a fellow gets into service is what matters. As things exist in the world today, every able-bodied man is going to serve his stretch in uniform; so he might as well make up his mind to be the best darned sailor, soldier, marine or coastguardman in his outfit.
Richard Allan: I agree with you, Dewey, and I think a guy should take along — his sense of humor.
I got the greetings, put in for the Air Corps and got my basic training on the East coast, then was shipped 3,000 miles across country to the Portland, Oregon airbase. Our detachment lined up on the landing strip. Boy, were we filled with that stuff you see in the wild blue yonder! And then a top sergeant said, “You have been consigned to the Quartermaster’s Laundry Battalion.”
Man, I fought the cleanest war on record; washed officers’ drawers from North Africa to Italy. But the laundry business left me time to study. I took singing lessons from a French vocal teacher who couldn’t talk English, so I had to learn to talk French. While I was in Italy, I studied with the Director of Music at the University of Pisa. If I’d just been a civilian, I’d never have had those breaks.
I imagine the reason this high-school senior is goofing off is because he thinks he is going to have to mark time during service, and that he’ll just be wasting his life. That’s a foolish notion!
Craig Hill: I think almost every guy goes around in circles for awhile, trying to find out what he really likes. Look at me. I was in the Navy a year, and then I got an appointment to Annapolis because I thought I wanted to make the Navy a career. After my first year at the Naval Academy I decided brass buttons weren’t for me. I knew what I really wanted was to be an actor.
I think this girl’s boy friend should wait to be drafted. But I think he should find out what the various services offer so that he can make good use of his time when he does go in.
Touch Conners: I was drafted, but if I had to do it over again I think I’d enlist. You see, I’m darned grate
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