"Tex Houston" wrote in message
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|
| I have a lot of hours in college and the thing I liked about community
| colleges and commuter campuses was the mix of students you encountered.
The
| students who entered directly out of high school, with few exceptions, had
| little to contribute. Without some life experience their horizons were
very
| close.
|
| Perhaps no student should be permitted to attend college until they had
| worked a couple of years to smooth over some of the unfinished edges. I
was
| particularly struck by a literature class where we had just read "Death of
a
| Ball-turret Gunner" by Randall Jarrell when one of the older students
spoke
| up and described his experiences as a WW-II ball-turret gunner.
|
| I'm sure my USAF travels did not handicap me in class.
|
| Regards,
|
| Tex Houston
|
|






"When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose"





I was about 11 when I read that for the first time, the poem was like a
short, sharp slap in the face.



Gets your attention quickly.


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Regards


Dave Kearton