 "Like so many Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program officers, Leslie Poste's military career began with his induction as a private soldier because his vision problems nixed his application to Officers' Candidate School.By 1943 he had just earned his Master's degree in Library Science and was serving as an acting librarian at Columbia College when the Army called him.With their usual placement skills they put Poste into a General Service Engineers Regiment like mine.