Schisgall, Oscar "I'll Never Go Back"

A Liberty “short, short story” filled to the gills with hokum and propaganda. Young Navy nurse, survivor of the fall of the Philippines, returns home to Maine to find the man she loves, a merchant mariner, also back home after surviving the torpedoing of his tanker — the fictitious CITY OF TULSA — off the coast of Virginia. He is suffering from “nerves” and hasn’t recovered from his ordeal, but nonetheless wants to marry her. He also never wants to go to sea again, instead wanting to stay ashore to look for work. Miss Nurse, fearing him now a coward, says, in her best Patriotic Voice “no.” Actually she says: “Go back to sea. Get a grip on yourself.” Suffice to say, he gets a grip, re-enlists in the merchant marine and our Nurse agrees to marry him — and then re-ups herself with the Navy. Seems she’s been suffering from a bad case of the nerves, too, but his example has given her the courage to go back to her service in the Navy.