Paul Harvey's legacy touches GI's

The passing of legendary broadcaster Paul Harvey will leave a void in the industry. He was one of a kind who could make the broadcasting of news items entertaining and often theatrical, to say the least. While many of his fellow broadcasters reveled in reporting the scandals of celebrities, he chose to give us wholesome stories of little-known facts of famous people and kept us guessing up to the end of his famous line, "And now the rest of the story," as to whom they were. Returning servicemen from World War II particularly have a soft spot in their hearts for Paul Harvey. He had the foresight to see that the military men and women returning from that war quickly needed to find a job, settle down and get on with their lives. His resulting idea and program were "Jobs for GI Joe ." It emanated out of the Chicago studios in the Wrigley Building. It had a simple format where military men and women would showcase the job skills they had picked up in the military in addition to the ones they already had before entering the military. The program had a wide-reaching audience, and by the end of the program many an ex-GI had an employer already placing them in a job. Paul had managed to circumvent these job hopefuls from winding up as being just a name buried in a government office employment file, but to being a real live person on the air being most eager to get back into the job ranks.

Walter Santi

Bloomingdale