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Show v - - w:. . r .. ill"" -- fi ii i - i Editor of American Heritage Pulitzer Prizs Yftxxing Author cf "A StrJzzz .eft . - r , , a ' App5 T is o doy set aside for sober pride and haunting memories; a vj . f' L' I ' - HV 'i - T -- vrv y 1 ;- .V?V."i''7 $i f t - - - " " t v V. -- v iQr . ; j ' yjr '! " 'A - J ' ( 5 iy , k remindsr that what we have os Americans, since it is of infinite volue, has not come to us as o free gift but has to be paid for over . and over again. Each generation has to meet its share of the bill and the price is always high. Memorial Day is the occasion when we reflect briefly on what thot price is. j r On the surface, Memorial Day often looks just like another holiday. Stores and factories and offices ore! closed, everybody and his family takes the day off the automobiles clog .the highways, and between the ball games ana4 the picnics and the broad in dofence of o worm spring day stretching out to meet full summer, we put on o pretty good imitation of a nation going out for a good time with nothing particular on its mind DUT in the background there are always the graves, the observe ances at the cemeteries, the dipping flags and the speeches, and the notes of the bugles hanging in the air. j In the midst of life there are these reminders of death. We are what we ore today because many 'thousands of young Americans have died in their countns battfes, and the gravestones lie all over the world from Antietam and Chickamauga to Sicily and Normandy and the far off islands of the Pacific, from the Rhineland to the bleak mourv tains and desolate valleys of Korea. Each: gravestone stands for one young life? too for one family's tragedy, for a heartbreak that does not wholly heal as long as any remembering heart continues to beat. The price has been terribly high, and in thisAjncertain world it may never be paid in full. YETthe finol meaning of Memorial Day ii not simply unrelieved sadness and melancholy. The f uture grjiws put of the past, and when we look at these innumerable tragedies we can seefuture the taking shope. Beyond the graves and the flags there is an unending procession, of which we ourseves are a part, moving on and on without an end. There are values that go beyond life, and the processsion moves because men have been willing to sac rifice everything for those values; it will continue to move as long as that willingness remains. A The final answer to the mystery that we confront as we stand by these graves is not denial and emptiness. The gain somehow balance the losses. On Memorial Day we look, ahead, as well as back. Looking back, we see what has been done for us; looking ahead, we see pur own continuing challenge and responsibility. X If we measure up to the full, meaning of the holiday, it is a day '1 j - v J' W'sft&ri , ' soon-ended- , by-go- ne t II LL , VI IIUCUIKJ IllUllipitUllt UIIIIHlUKUri. i i Sen tee ' 'T. HUSBAND, WIFE-AN- , II ; tu 1- - UNCLE SAM' D JROTC Couples Face New 'Trian&le' As Cadets Get Bars of Air Force urr icers This week Brigham Young University will graduate approximately 750 seniors, some of whom will be writing, "finish", to formal education. But for nearly two score of these graduates and their wives, a new kind of introduction - to the life of an Air Force officer is just educa-tion--- an - beginning.As one young wife of a gradu? first, because from the time the problems about transportation, housing, insurance, base activities personal services, and a host of other important items. Then, too, they want to be familiar with, protocol, social and military customs. In short, they must be indoctrinated into mili tary life, must know its benefits, its hazards. To help make this change a pleasant, full experience rather than an adventure into the unknown; the Air Force ROTC De tachment at BYU organized this and spring an indoctrination program new officer receives his first assignment until he is handed; his discharge, Uncle Sam and the Air Force will be calling the moves, giving the orders. Married life on a college campus is quite different fro: a married life in the .U.S. Air Force, and the change may be abrupt and sometimes painful. Just how difficult the change may be, of course, depends on the married couple. Almost immediately . the new officer and his spouse will be ating cadet put It: "For the next three years my married life will be a triangle involving myself, my husband, and Uncle 'Sam." For all intents and purposes the should have put Uncle Sam confronted with questions for the new officers and their wives. Of course the new officers gained a pretty good knowledge, of what to expect in the Air Force while they were cadets ini the BYU classrooms. But it was otn vious the wives were having their misgivings about the future. Consequently, expert assistance was solicited from among! the wives of the seasoned officers on the Detachment staff. These wives, whose background is both broad and colorful, were able to give a first hand account of military life. One of the meetings was devotr ed to an afternoon aJt nearbyhHili Air Force Base,- were many of the- cadet wives saw- for the first time a U.S. air base. They viewed the complex operations involved in modern flfght,. 'toured ' the" inside of ahuge cargo plane, and hao; lunch at the officers' ' - - - j'). i :y yl K i'KiV- C-1- --' club. Much of what they learned that afternoon at Hill Field will make the change easier. They discovered that it takes $80,000 to train a jet fighter pilot, and that their husbands, once trained, will be n dollar masflying terpieces of flight. They soon began to realize (Continued on Page 2A) ytr multi-millio- j ( t- s Ay - v 'y, 24 f mi; WELL. STOCKED EMPORIUM Since the change-ov- er from stu-aent uving io me ax an air Dase win involve mucn cnange, wives of AF ROTC June graduates, who will also receive commissions in the Air Force and b far .Ivp Hntv. hv received instructions during the past few months in some of the points they will need to know in adjusting from civilian to service wives. leln - : - y1" . 1 - in post exchanges. - i i ! i Q0 i Shown above is a group of the wives being shown through the base commisary at Hill Air Force 'Base. Shown with back to camera is Mai G1ystfen base exchange officer who Instructed thewomen on their responsibilities and privileges while shopping . ' i Q0 I ; Society . . . , . . . ' -- rts Qiurch -Jchools .. HE'S JUST MY MAN No matter how many fine, handsome men are commissioned second lieutenants U. S. Air Force Reserve, in coming ceremonies with commencement exercises on Brigham Young University campus, for each wife of an AF ROTC cadet, it will be a one man show, as she produly watches her special cadet receive the oath and charge. Anticipating the coming formalities are, left. Colleen and Richard D. Cox and Jean and Phyl G. Ekins, as these two pretty wives polish up the sleeve bar and brush off the uniform prior to the exercises. ; co-incid- ent SUNDAY, MAY 29, 1955 j 1 IMAGINE HAYING TO MAKE THIS WORK The mtrfesjeies of the flight engineer's instrument cargo plane is explained to these wives pi future Air Force personnel as part-o- f panel on a orientation course for these women whose husband's wiB be entering.' active military service soon. Officer making the explanations is Lt. Alton Reine ofc the 28th Logistics Squadron, Hill Air Force Base. Shown left is Mrs. Keith T. Carlon and seated; jjight is Mrs. Melvin F. Anderson.- Tha wife peeking over the shoulder of, Mrs. Carlson is unidentified, C-1- 24 I . - i |