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Show WOULD A SOLDIER DROP HIS GUN? If the march to the battle were long, and. the weight that he carried become more than he could bear, wou'ld a soldier drop his gun of his ammunition? He might throw off his field pack, might even toss aside his mess kit and canteen, but his gun and his bullets he would keep. Together they would be his only strength and his only real hope in the battle. For most of us on the home front the march has been long, and the financial burden we carry has become heavier. Now, in preparing to pay the stiff est income tax we've ever had to meet;, some of us may be looking thoughtfully at our sheaf of war bonds. Those war bonds are our guns in this fight. Our ammunition, am-munition, we might say, is our taxes. It takes guns and ibullets to win a battle; it takes bonds and, taxes to win a war, and protect a heritage. Certainly there is no one to tell us we can't turn in those bonds. We bought them with the understanding that we could convert them whenever we wished. And, a few of us, for one reason or another, may have to turn them1 in. But if we think of the soldier, they'll be the last thing we give up the very last. |