Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na St. Paul's School, New Hampshire, ma gaa Mahadum Yale, ebe ọ bụ onye otu nke Scroll and Key society, ma bụrụ onye e nyere onyinye Alpheus Henry Snow Prize. Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ na 1942, ọ sonyeere ndị agha mmiri nke 22 ma lụọ agha na Pacific; o sonyere na
Agha nke Eniwetok, na Agha nke Guam dịka onye ndu ndị agha, na-efunahụ anya aka ekpe ya na mwakpo grenade. Ọ ghọrọ onye isi ndị ọchịagha ma nweta ihe nrite Bronze Star Medal. O kesara ahụmahụ ndị o nwere n'agha, na-ede maka "The Atlantic Monthly".