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Show The DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., Jan. 8, 1971 changes, new hopes Write a word to the enemy right a wrong for America Retirees Benefits Growing ttu ff "Let's not overdae it, Murphy!" 1 (Courtesy of Yiie Boston Globe) Honor America Day Draws Throngs In Washington Nearly All To Cheer Servicemen's Insurance Coverage Now $15,000 traditions crumble as Army gets new face-liftin- g Long-tim- e - iHrv jWOW GREKY 46LOWOUS IT C6v 6 B TOTOR 0N& (OJnW jJThe DESERET SAMPLER Cancel Reveille? Tt Could Happen Army finally wakes up Write a letter for POWs The letter lelov is a translation of a letter to Ton Due Thang, the President of North Vietnam, on of the 1,000 U.S. Servieenien who arc prisoners of war or missing in action in Southeast Asia. The letter originally appeared in the San Diego Union. COPIES OF the letter in Vietnamese are available in the Information Offices at Deseret Test Center Headquarters or Dugway Proving Ground and we ask you to request a copy, sign it and mail it (25 cents jrastagc) to Ton Due Thang, President, Democratic Republic of Vietnam, Hanoi, North Vietnam. What we ask here will take perhaps an hour or two of your time. Some of our men in prison camps have sacrificed over five years of their time. To the Honorable Ton Due Thang: We take this means of appealing to you on a situation which is close to the hearts of all Americans. This issue is not whether Americans should he in Vietnam or whether we should pull all our troops out immediately. Hie issue is not whether you are right and we are wrong or that we are right and you are lx.-ha- wrong. THE ISSUE is the. 450 American Servicemen who are held in your prison camps. Another 1,150 are listed as missing and possibly some are your prisoners. Their situation is our united concern. Both (he "doves and the hawks" of America feel deeply aliout them and their welfare. We ask you to consider their immediate release. They have no military value to you. They can't hurt or hamper your war effort and no longer would help ours. THESE MEN, like your soldiers, do not institute policy hut merely serve as soldiers have done since time liegan. Like your men, they performed their duty and were willing to sacrifice for their country. Like your soldiers, they left their homes and families not lecausc they wanted to but U'cause their country called on them. Patriotism is not limited to the men of Vietnam or to the men of America privilege of all men. They fight under their flag whether it le red, white and blue or red, yellow and blue. Your supporters in this country could take satisfaction from the release of prisoners. This, mor than anything else, would demonstrate that you too, do not seek revenge against men who did their duty. This, too, would show the world that compassion, not punishment, can lead to peace. THE ARGUMENTS of your critics that human life means nothing to you would be laseless if you allowed just peace by acting quickly to the appeal. If your heart contains mercy and your soul compassion and if you truly seek to help the cause of peace, you have an opportunity to achieve these images in the eyes of the world. The feeling here is that you don't care alxnit the individual; that his needs and wants and desires don't matter; that life is not sacred to vou. YOUR ACTIONS can give lie to these lwlicfs. An act of amnesty toward American prisoners would show the world that you are concerned with life and that all life is sacred. Family ties in America are strong and all Americans want these men reunited with their families. Some fathers have never seen their children. Some are missing the joy of watching them but The DESERET SAMPLER Dugway Census Begins April 1 is the grow. And, the children, they live with a constant dream and hope that they may again lc a whole family. FEW MEN in the history of the world have lxen given the opportunity that you now have. History can record you as a man of compassion; a man who respected human life and held it in high value; a man who held that family life is paramount providing a measure of peace to many families. Return these men to their families and the world would hail you. Retain them and your supporters can't help but wonder alxnit your sincerity and motives. The 1970 decennial Census will be taken at Dugway Proving Ground starting Wed nesday, April 1. The census will be taken of all residents of the installation both military and civilian, including occupants of troop billets, dormitories, Bachelor Officer Quarters and trailers in Fries Park." I G3S SCHEDULE FOR 1970 CENSUS DUGWAY PROVING GROUND PLACE OF CENSUS: BALLROOM, OFFICERS OPEN MESS s' Record I snowfall hits DPG Even though it is late in the year, Dugway Proving Ground has shattered several snowfall records for 1970 with this week's snowstorm. The snow initially began to fall on Wednesday at 1:05 p.m. and then proceeded to smash all established records. The old 24 hour accumulation record of six inches in November, 1963, and the great tre -- ox 58 Dugway Open House Planned For May 22 IK .7S-- . ge I.. I . WE ADDRESS you not as one enemy to another but as owe human to another. As citizens of the United Slates we have no power to offer anything as individuals but goodwill in exchange for the men yo hold. We have no power to make threats if you don't. We only have hope; hope tliat you will heed the pleas and restore these men to their families. now - ,w' I .v SS |