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As a student in the 1930s McCarthy was part of the Catholic Worker crowd, theologically orthodox but politically left-wing, and to this day McCarthy still reminisces fondly of visits with Dorothy Day. After seminary, he tried his hand at farming, then took a job teaching economics at a Catholic college in Minnesota

These Leftist authors are so rigid in the spewing of their anti-war rhetoric that this one left out a crucial segment of Sen. McCarthy's young career as an Army Air Forces B-24 Pilot during World War Two. And especially the paragraph from Stephen Ambrose's book, "The Wild Blue" when McCarthy's bomber had to jettison bomb load and the ordanance hit farm buildings and a house at noon. It really shook McCarthy up, and he even met the residents after the end of the war to finally find out that they weren't in the house at the time which eased his conscience. But even so, he finished his pilot career with honor.