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- 270 - a table mat, material for a gandbag, any number of things." For a moment he was silent, thinking. then he said, "My girl's good at sewing. Can I send it home to her and tell her what you said?" "Of course," I said. "It's your. You made it." He smiled, a great sunburst of a smile. "I'm going to tell my girl to make herself a scarf. And then I'm going to weave some more for my Ma and my sisters and everybody I can think of. How about that?" There were times when I had to walk away quickly, blinking hack the tears. This was one of many. Nobody can say how many men returned to civilian life with a marketable skill learned in the hospitals. As a textile designer, I know some have done well in large textile mills. Numbers, both men and women, came to my San Francisco studio after the war to shoe me their