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Wednesday, Jan. 19, 1966 Griffin Daily News
The GIs Phone Home
By TOM TIEDE
SAIGON, Viet Nam —(NEA)
—The first color of dawn was
still an hour away as the
eyed GIs began stuffing them
selves into the
room.
“Are you all calling the
ted States?” a dreary clerk
dered.
“We are,” the group
ed.
"Fill out these forms,
"Hey, bud,” a soldier asked,
“how long does it take to
through?”
“One to four hours."
“That long. . , .for a phone
call?”
“At least.”
“Look, I want Maryland, not
Mars.”
The men chuckled, filled in the
forms and regulated themsel
ves on their rears. Phoning
home, they knew, like everyth
ing else here, would require the
woe of waiting.
The men had arrived at 6 a.
m. to be first in line. They were
greeted by those who had arriv
ed at 5. Hie office opened at 7,
the operators cranked up at
7:30 and the first busy signal
rang out at 8:15.
“We have only two lines open,”
the clerk said.
Everybody sucked a lemon.
“If weather is bad, calls are
cancelled.”
Everybody wrinkled a nose.
"If you do get through, you
may be cut off.”
Everybody felt ill.
“But normally, there is no
trouble.”
Everybody breathed relief.
A rooster began to crow some
where. A man had his transistor
shrilling. Morning papers were
read. Fingernails were cleaned
with matchsticks. A guy began
to pass a photo of his wife
around.
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The boys begin waiting at 5 a.m. Sometimes, they don’t
get wrong numbers or busy signals.
“Boy," said the latter, “I got
ta get through.”
"Oh?” a man yawned.
“Yeah, my wife’s having a
baby.’
“How long you been married,
kid?”
"Nine months now.”
“Oh?”
“Yeah, and this is our first ba-
THE DOCTOR SAYS
The Quality Of
\ Fearfulness
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By Wayne G. Brandstadt, M.D.
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
Tlie quality of tearfulness is
not strained — it falleth alike on
young and old, male and female,
rich and poor. Man has always
known fear and anxiety. Tornton
Wilder ably expressed this
thought in his play, “Hie Skin
of Our Teeth,” which showed
that through the ages man has
been confronted with a series
of crises and that one way or
another, he has always come
through them.
It is possible that, with mo-
cause (fear that one’s dis
comfort is due to an incurable
disease) which anxiety is a va
gue apprehension due to causes
buried in the subconscious and
often hard to Uncover.
Fear, far from being a bad
thing, is the force that prompts
us to adopt safety precautions
in our daily lives. Fear of can
cer has definitely reduced the
death rate from this disease by
leading people to seek an early
diagnosis. Anxiety on the other
hand is more destructive than
constructive. The man with anx
ieties feels trapped and is likely
to develop high blood pressure,
a peptic ulcer, mccous colitis
or some form of neurosis. The
neurotic may be defined as an
essentially normal individual
who is losing his battle against
his anxiety.
It is estimated that nearly half
of the people who consult their
doctor are suffering from cau
ses in which anxiety plays a ma
jor role. In fact, these people
find it easier to talk to their doc
tor about the discomfort in their
abdomen or chest than about
the nagging uneasiness in the
back of their mind.
In most cases, however, if
the patient and doctor fail to get
to the root of the underlying
anxiety, attempts to bring about
a lasting improvement are doo
med to disappointment.
In tomorrow’s column we take
a closer look at the causes and
manifestations of anxiety.
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U. S. Senate is Robert G.
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places Joseph C. Duke, who
resigned. Dunphy, 45, is •
native of Rhode Island.
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There are only two places In
Saigon where a GI can call
home. They are daily jammed
with sweating, swearing traffic.
Money is the only problem that
isn’t one. The cost is only $6 for
three minutes of conversation.
Six minutes is the limit.
“Who you calling, fella?” one
man asked another.
“My girl.”
“That so?”
“At least she was my girl.”
“What happened?”
“She sent me a Dear John
letter yesterday.”
“Tough. Sure glad my gal
ain’t like that."
“She ain’t?”
“Naw, she kissed me off be
fore I even left the States.”
At 8 a.m. Saigon, it was 12
hours earlier in New York. It
was 7 p.m. in Chicago, d in Salt
Lake City and work day’s end
in San Francisco.
Conversation in the waiting
room was sporadic. Bursts of
giggles and then silence. Colo
nels and Pfcs mingled as one,
read on e another’s magazines,
lit one another’s cigarettes. The
war was not mentioned. Boys
talked of sweethearts, men talk
ed of children.
Finally, one man was hastily
summoned.
He leaped up and his chair fell
over. He tripped over a socket
plug. He grabbed the phone and
nearly lost a tooth on the receiv
er.
“Hello...hello, honey? It’s me
Al!"
He paused breathlessly for the
cracking, barely audible ans
wer.
“Huh?” he gulped. “Whattya
mean, Al who?”
It was the morning’s first
wrong number.
dern systems of communication
and a resultant greater aware
ness of distant dangers, tearful
ness is playing an increasing
role in the mental and physical
health of the people. The annual
sale of tranquilizers would indi
cate that this is so.
Fear and anxiety, although re-
1 a t e d, are not precisely the
same. Anxiety is characterized
by a lack of confidence in one
self, a feeling of dependency on
others, an unwillingness to de
velop new skills and easy fati
gability, irritability and discour
agement. A fear has a definite
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