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Show Figures Don't Lie - Soldiers Do Die There has been a lot of talk about how Governor J. Bracken Lee was defeated on a resolution presented at the Governors' Conference recently dealing with the contribution contribu-tion of military personnel from allies in repulsing communism. commu-nism. We would like to ask the question: "What's wrong with each nation contributing its fair share of military personnel in suppressing aggression?" Since the start of the Korean war we have been unable un-able to understand the willingness of United States leaders lead-ers to throw American boys into the front lines to do a major ma-jor portion of the actual fighting. It was as important to most of the other nations to stop aggression as it was to the United States. Then why was it not as much their responsibility re-sponsibility as ours to do the fighting. There may be some justification for the United States meeting the financial obligation, but we can think of no reason why our boys should be the ones to do all the fighting, fight-ing, all the bleeding and dying. About 25,000 Americans were killed in the Korean action while only 835 English soldiers paid the supreme sacrifice. There certainly is no criticism of the men from allied nations who fought in Korea. They did their job well. Our objection is that there were too few of them in comparison with the number of men needed to do the job. It seems like "everybody was out of step but J. Bracken" when the resolution was presented at the Governors' Gov-ernors' conference, but somehow we feel that he was the most sincere and most honest of the group. lie was voting for what he honestly thought was right, and not just playing play-ing politics. Surely all the governors of the other states of the union are not honestly of the opinion that the United States should continue to send American boys to do the fighting and dying and letting men of the other nations remain at home, especially when the cause is just as important im-portant to one nation as to the other. |