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Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a
mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that' s not
how it used to be. To the men and women who{{U}} {{U}} 1
{{/U}} {{/U}}in World War I1 and the people they liberated, the GI. was
the{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}man grown into hero, the pool farm
kid torn away from his home, the guy who{{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}}
{{/U}}all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without
the{{U}} {{U}} 4 {{/U}} {{/U}}of 1hod and shelter, who stuck it
out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a vohmteer soldier,
not someone well paid,{{U}} {{U}} 5 {{/U}} {{/U}}an average guy,
up{{U}} {{U}} 6 {{/U}} {{/U}}the best trained, best equipped,
fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries. His name is
not much. GI. is just a military abbreviation{{U}} {{U}} 7
{{/U}} {{/U}}Govermnent Issue, and it was on all of the article{{U}}
{{U}} 8 {{/U}} {{/U}}to soldiers. And Joe? A common name for a guy
who never{{U}} {{U}} 9 {{/U}} {{/U}}it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe
Magrae... a working class name.The United States has{{U}} {{U}} 10
{{/U}} {{/U}}had a president or vieepresident or secretary of state
Joe. GI. Joe had a{{U}} {{U}} 11 {{/U}}
{{/U}}career fighting Geman, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a
character, or a{{U}} {{U}} 12 {{/U}} {{/U}}of American
personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of GL Joe, based on the last days of
war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle{{U}} {{U}}
13 {{/U}} {{/U}}portrayde themselves in the fihn. Pyle was famous for
covering the{{U}} {{U}} 14 {{/U}} {{/U}}side of the warl,
writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were {{U}}
{{U}} 15 {{/U}} {{/U}}or what towns were captured or liberated. His
reports{{U}} {{U}} 16 {{/U}} {{/U}}the "willie" cartoons of
famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men{{U}} {{U}}
17 {{/U}} {{/U}}the dirt and exhaustion of war, the{{U}} {{U}}
18 {{/U}} {{/U}}of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other
and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep.{{U}} {{U}}
19 {{/U}} {{/U}}Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G. I. Joe was
any American soldier,{{U}} {{U}} 20 {{/U}} {{/U}}the most
important person in their lives.