On the Easter weekend of 1943, I, an eighteen-year-old, signalman third-class, had a week to go before reporting to the Armed Guard Center in Brooklyn. A Quartermaster second-class named Shultz, also taking the course, who bunked near me suggested we spend the weekend in New York City and away we went, with Shultz leading the way.
We caught a train down to New York, ate at an automat, caught a show at Radio City Music Hall, and found a clean, cheap place to bunk for the night. The next day we went to the top of the Empire State Building, the top of the Statue of Liberty, and looked at Wall Street and other places.
On Easter morning we got up early and took in the annual Sunrise Easter service at daybreak. We ate at an automat and started walking up a ritzy street (probably Park Avenue) were we met lots of well-dressed women going to church in their Easter outfits. Shultz said women are alike all over the world, just pick out one and stare real hard at her, and I guarantee she will stare right back and you will be the one who will have to look away. Holy smoke! Old Shultz was right!
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