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- 1. Explain the complete organization of the content in the document. Mahurin was shot down himself, twice during World War II and once in the Korean War, which led to his capture and 16 traumatic months in a prison camp.A native of Benton Harbor, Mich., Mahurin studied engineering at Purdue University then joined the Army Air Forces in September 1941 — three months before Pearl Harbor.He went by the call sign "Honest John," a title he'd later adopt for his memoirs. During the war he was assigned to a fighter group in England, where the first plane he took down was his own. He would redeem himself a month later, shooting down his first pair of German planes in August 1943 while flying a P-47 Thunderbolt.By October he had become an ace, meaning he had scored five aerial victories. The number rose to ten later that year, making Mahurin the first "double ace" in the European Theater of Operations. Three of the planes he downed came in a single mission. Do you think the individual sections and headings in the document clearly represent the idea that was communicated. Explain the reasons behind your comments. His knowledge of the resistance made his potential capture in Europe too dangerous and he was grounded, but would fly again in the Phillipines and finished the war with over 20 aerial victories. His later service in the Korean War brought the number to 24.I was brought up in an age when flying was the only thing, Mahurin told the Air Force magazine Airman in 2003, when he was a retired colonel. What details are included in the document? He listened to them, wept with them and vowed to change the way the archdiocese dealt with the molestation of children by priests. But just months later, he handwrote a letter to Peter Isely, a victim and an advocate whose wife worried that the new archbishop would let him down.Listen to her, Archbishop Dolan wrote. “Do not put your trust in me. Was there anything that was confusing? If so, what is it? Days before the letter, they learned that Archbishop Dolan had instructed lawyers to seek the dismissal of five lawsuits against the church. Over the next six years, advocates would lament that he resisted many of their appeals for change, from opening church records on predatory priests to offering victims more comprehensive help.Archbishop Dolan of Milwaukee is now Archbishop Dolan of New York, one of the church’s most visible leaders. What is good about the writing? Why is it good? The archbishop himself has struggled with the crisis during the decade since it struck the church in
- 2. America with startling force. While sexual abuse has not confronted him as a major issue in New York, it loomed large in Milwaukee and in his previous assignment as a bishop in St. Louis. And a close look at his record there, largely unexamined since his arrival in New York about a year ago, shows how he tried — not always successfully — to accommodate competing demands. Are there any errors that need to be corrected? One of a generation of bishops who came to the job after many of their predecessors were discredited, Archbishop Dolan faced not only abuse victims but also a church hierarchy worried about ruinous damages awards, parishioners angry over payments to victims, and his own priests, some perhaps falsely accused. It was a diplomatic gantlet many recent bishops have had to walk, and Archbishop Dolan trod it with particular care. What specific suggestions for improving the document can you make? A genial conciliator, he consoled victims and created a fund to pay for compensation and counseling. He helped remove a dozen priests from ministry and disclosed the names of dozens more.He changed our experience in Milwaukee, said Ralph Leese, 58, who received a financial settlement for his repeated abuse by a priest. Identify three basic differences between how your group authored the document and how this group authored it? In interviews and written responses for this article, Archbishop Dolan, 60, has discussed his handling of the abuse crisis at length. He expressed impatience with Mr. Isely’s group — Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP — which, he said, could be impossible to please. The group, he said, was one of many forces pressing him, including Catholics who wanted no acknowledgment of the sex abuse problem.