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“Let’s drop the Hero Stuff”‘Home isn’t so far away now. We can measure, almost in days, the time remaining ahead of us in France. As we sit in our sanctum, penning these words, we can smell the sea; Ahead of us, three thousand miles away, is Hoboken. But – There’ll be jobs to look for when we get back. We must continue to eat and dress and live in civil life and we won’t have any Uncle Sam handing us three meals a day. Yes, there’ll be work to look for. And we’ll have to come down to earth, too, in looking for jobs. For a time, we’ll have lot of fun playing the Returning Hero and Prodigal Son stuff. But, that will end. There’ll come a time when we’ll discover that a man may be a Perfect Hero and a Bum Mechanic; an Ideal Over the Topper but a Poor Sign Painter; a Dashing Machine Gun Nemesis and a Darned Poor Clerk. We’ll have to offer the employers more than a War Record. We’ll have to Deliver the Goods. So let’s drop the Hero Stuff before the folks at home get tired of us, before the employers get the idea we’re asking for jobs solely or the strength of the fact we came over.There are a lot of efficient men in our line of work who didn’t come over. This hurts us. But, it’s the truth. Think it over.’1919, American soldiers in France – The Lorraine Cross, published by the 79th Division – Photo: 1919, front of the City Hall of Trenton, New Jersey, a group of citizens welcoming the returning soldiers – Library of Congress -- source link
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