The Americanization of Edward Bok 17. Đây là một cuốn sách rất ý nghĩa, dễ đọc và hàm chứa nhiều bài học hay về phong cách sống, về quản trị cuộc đời. Có những bài học có thể áp dụng cho cuộc sống hiện tại của mình. Đặc biệt là câu chuyện kể về việc Edward đã thành công như thế nào khi nỗ lực xây dựng tuần báo The Ladies Home Journal và những bài học về cách tạo dựng cuộc sống cho riêng mình: Hãy đơn giản hóa mọi khó khăn, nghiêm khắc với bản thân, quyết tâm. | was discretion a few miles farther back. The amazing part of the show however was the American doughboy. Never was there a more cheerful laughing good-natured set of boys in the world never a more homesick lonely and complaining set. But good nature predominated and the smile was always uppermost even when the moment looked the blackest the privations were worst and the longing for home the deepest. Bok had been talking to a boy who lived near his own home who was on his way to the front and over the top in the Argonne mess. Three days afterward at a hospital base where a hospital train was just discharging its load of wounded Bok walked among the boys as they lay on their stretchers on the railroad platform waiting for bearers to carry them into the huts. As he approached one stretcher a cheery voice called Hello Mr. Bok. Here I am again. It was the boy he had left just seventy-two hours before hearty and well. Well my boy you weren t in it long were you No sir answered the boy Fritzie sure got me first thing. Hadn t gone a hundred yards over the top. Got a cigarette the invariable question . Bok handed a cigarette to the boy who then said Mind sticking it in my mouth Bok did so and then offered him a light the boy continued all with his wonderful smile If you don t mind would you just light it You see Fritzie kept both of my hooks as souvenirs. With both arms amputated the boy could still jest and smile It was the same boy who on his hospital cot the next day said Don t you think you could do something for the chap next to me there on my left He s really suffering cried like hell all last night. It would be a Godsend if you could get Doc to do something. A promise was given that the surgeon should be seen at once but the boy was asked How about you Oh came the cheerful answer I m all right. I haven t anything to hurt. My wounded members are gone--just plain gone. But that chap has got something--he got the real thing What was the real thing according to such a .
