Show LIBERTY NEVER OLD FASHIONED Whether Whether we like it or not Vietnam has become a war effort of the first magnitude It Itcan be nothing else when hundreds of thousands of US citizens are called upon to leave their homes and families for military service In past wars there have been differ differ- differences of opinion as to the wisdom and pol pol- policies idles of leadership but never as at present has there been evidence of lack of support of the basic principles of freedom for which we have always fought I In spite of this weakening of first principles principles ples at home it is encouraging to read the thee e comment of Admiral E M Eller director of Naval History concerning the attitudes and feelings of servicemen in Vietnam lIe says From my conversations with those who have served there from correspondence and from the flow of official reports that come into our archives I am convinced that nearly all the Americans in Vietnam know why they are there defending freedom against tyranny of the tl cruelest kind When one people loses free free- freedom freedom dom all lose in part The idea of believing in ones one's country and in the ideal of liberty un- un under under der representative government is never old old- old fashioned |