| Show From the Outside Looking In Head Tells Why We're Fighting Guest columnist this week is Colonel George E. head of the Ninth Command Army Specialized Training It is not given to any one man to know what this war is all It is too big and involves too many ideas and ideals as well as too many nations and peoples for any one person to know very much about But it is not too difficult for every person to reach a conclusion as to what he or she is fighting Different people have different reasons for but they are all fighting the same We have been asked to give our opinion on this subject and on the part that the Army Specialized Training program plays in the The program is new and there are many persons who know less about it than we That is why we are complying with the request to write this What a Man Gives Many of us are fighting for the right to judge a man's success by what he is giving to the world rather than by what he is taking from A young man who has given very little in proportion to what he has received may have great potential value for future success if he will develop his capacity and This war and the peace to follow will be won only to the extent that all of us give the very best that is in If has given us a brain and the ability to use it is our duty to use that brain for the winning of the war and the The Army Specialized Training program gives us an opportunity to do just In the best soldier lives the He also gives the most and the most successful judged by modern standards No man can give more than his life and we shall always honor and revere the memory of those who fall in and respect them for their great contribution to the success of our while we it is our duty as soldiers to live for our country and to prolong that life as much as possible by skill and daring in the art of In this way through good we can prolong the lives of our fellow Need Educated Men The has been sent to college because we need educated men to win war against Germans and Until the emphasis has been on the mental training of these It is hoped that their physical training in the program can gradually be changed and expanded until they are physically as well as mentally the best soldiers in the United States They will then be equipped to the best of their respective to receive further military training on their return to the Army and to make their maximum contribution to the winning of the war and the There is no official information concerning the published December 12 and since of the alleged proposal to liquidate the Even if this would not change anything I have written It would still be the duty of every soldier to get all the useful education he The Germans and Japs are doing |
