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Show Voter cOiTiiT.snfs on lack of patriotism Dear Editor, As citizens of the United States of America, we should be ashamed! Why? I'll give my reasons why I think so. On Monday evening the 116th Engineers Company of the Utah National Guard were welcomed home to Springville from their ten month tour of duty to Fort Lewis, Wash. Anyway, I hope they thought they were welcome, as I doubt if even half the seats in the Junior High auditorium were filled at the program in their honor. What a fine spirit of patriotism the citizens of this cultural city of Springville have. Gov. George D. Clyde was proud enough of these men to take time out from his busy life to attend this program and be a speaker. He praised the men of the guard for a job well done and expressed the importance of the home National Na-tional Guard units to protect us as citizens. Each time the guardunits have been called to active duty, there has either eith-er been a war going on, or one has soon started, so we can thank our lucky stars they all came back this time in peace. If there had been another war, and only half came back alive, would the town have turned out to greet them even then? I honestly wonder. The program was well planned plan-ned and well carried out. Patriotic Pat-riotic songs were sung and played and several speakers voiced their praises. I myself participated on it, and it did my heart good, and made me deeply proud of my heritage, but one thing detracted from the spirit, and made me again ashamed, and that was the way the flag of our nation was displayed. dis-played. It stood on a short pole, dragging the floor, and was sadly wrinkled, as though it had been chucked in a corner, cor-ner, instead of being properly folded. I do not know who is to blame, but it was certainly showing disrespect. Besides the Governor, there was a General, a Colonel, the Mayor and all other officers and men in attendance. at-tendance. Surely each of them noticed, but perhaps were too ashamed themselves to say anything about it. I understand any enlisted man can be greatly great-ly reprimanded for mistreating the flag while in the service of our country. I think that maybe it will take another war or something similarly drastic to wake us up, and then there will still be some who don't care. I hope this letter will arouse our spirit of patriotism enough to salute the flag the next time we see it properly displayed; to stand at attention the next time we hear the national an-hem an-hem being played, and to be mighty proud of the men and women who guard our nation's security, and show it! LINDA W. CLUFF, Registered voter and citizen citi-zen of the United States of America. Mrs. Delia Clark has returned re-turned from Winnemucca, Nev., where she has spent the past month with her daughter Mrs. Janice Higbee and family because of the automobile accident ac-cident in which Mrs. Higbee sustained painful injuries. She returned with grandson Larry who is working at Hercules and had been visiting his mother mo-ther at Winnemucca. |