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Title: Ellington 1918
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Air bases--Texas--Houston Flight training--Texas--Houston
Publisher: (Houston, Tex.) : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Rice University, Fondren Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Medical and MilitaryTreatment in the Spirit of a True Soldier, until he had Climbed the first Two Steps in the Stair ofIgnominy, Ground-school and Primary Flying, and had gotten his R. M. A. Then had come his first Glimmer of Hope since he was Originally Moved to Active Patriotism. Hesaid Farewell, without the Briny, to the Life of the Lost, the Days of Utter Hardships, the Nights of Chills,Mosquitoes and Bugles, and the White-Hat-Band, ah, Yes! Crescendo, Fortissimo, Planets Crashing in theCosmos! THE WHITE-HAT-BAND! He stood now a Marvelous Figure of Achievement, a Survival ofthe Pasteurized Cream of the Army; He had lived through his Era of Travail. Then the Present, omnipresent and ubiquitous, resumed Italicizing itself in his Tottering Mind. For itwas NOW, yes now, when he had Qualified for the Wings, that They made him Go Back to the Worm Stage.Even a Butterfly, only had to be a Worm once to get its Wings! Eating the Dirt wasnt So Bad. but Mak- Pagel03) ( ELLINGTON FIELD—1918
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ELLINGTON FIELD—1918) (Page 104 ing him wear the White-Hat-Band, that was the Rub! To him it was Symbolic of All the Orthodox Reasonsfor Suicide. It was the Last Straw. Then came the Renaissance! Credit for first seeing the Star which Led the Shackled Slaves of Red Tape out of the Dark Ages andinto the Great Light belongs to R. J. Jones, yclept Pop, who was a Fellow Sufferer. The Star led theCadet Officers to His Brain Foundling, the Student Officers Association. This Gang was allowed to Live through the Courtesy of the Powers that Be, and was Permitted Rep-resentation in the Reichstag on the Principal that Imposition without a Hearing is Tyranny. The Board ofGovernors devised a Working Schedule whereby the Burdens of Discipline rested largely on the ManlyShoulders of the Individual and whereby R. M. A.s, who Officially have the Status of Officers and Gentle-men, could wear the Insignia. The R. M. A. was given other Privileges incident to His Rank. He threw offthe Yoke of Cadetship

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