Show What Our Readers Think Editors Editor's Note Contributors to What Readers Thin Think must sign their fru true names and addresses although these will wili not be published if the writer r r. r quests Short letters Jeffers will be given preference Sergeant Pens Scathing Letter in Reply to Draftee Editor Telegram The following following following follow follow- ing is in reply to the letter which appeared in the February 20 edition of The The Telegram signed A Draftee which in my opinion only further demonstrates demonstrates demonstrates demon demon- strates the lack of patriotism that has been shown since the beginning of the national emer emer- gency It seems to me that when a person has lived in the grandest nation that God ever built he should be instilled with enough patriotism especially in these times to forget his personal self and take a little hardship along with the privilege of being an American citizen without putting putting putting put put- ting up such a squawk as the theone theone theone one by Draftee I wonder if he in case he were ever captured by the enemy would demand the treatment to which he has been accustomed As to being herded into trucks like cattle I wonder if he expects some one to haul him around as an individual He should realize that he is only one of millions This is only one of many in instances instances instances in- in stances of the same nature namely lack of guts In my daily contact with the public it happens every day The average person seems to have the perverted perverted perverted per per- idea that the government owes them something and they have no desire to serve the nation nation nation na na- na- na tion through any patriotic motives motives motives mo mo- mo- mo tives but are all looking for personal gain To persons with that attitude toward their individual hardships hardships hardships hard hard- ships I have but one feeling and that is contempt If our glorious General MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur Mac- Mac Arthur in the Philippines had had an army of men with the attitude they were being so badly m mistreated i s t rea t e d as our Draftee seems to think he was he wouldn't have lasted longer than a snowball in hell Sergeant George E. E Hill U. U S. S Army Re- Re Pocatello Service |