| Show Soldiers As Do Families at Home By Mary Jane Root I Tomorrow the nation will celebrate I Thanksgiving Day with turkey and all of the I trimmings but many people will overshadow f their happiness with thoughts of the boys I overseas and those loved ones who cannot I share with them the usual family dinner and I the football game in the It's hard I to in this world of that there are still many things for which I to be Servicemen and Thanksgiving I Even though the men in the services will not be home this will be observing Thanksgiving whether it be in a foxhole or out at One fellow wrote home to his this Thanksgiving Day rolls I the men in our company have many things for which to be the fact that we have emerged unscathed from the holocaust of or at least our first phase of that I while ships were being sunk on every hand and ports were being bombed the nights be- L fore or after we were we It I was more than luck it was Thank God also for our sense of that r we close our eyes to the bully beef at dinner I and remark on the excellence of the V we may be thankful for the prayers j of our loved ones at who will be plead- ll ing for our But most of we might be thankful for the privilege we have of serving in our small way the cause which will one day set the world again at peace and bring liberty to the oppressed liberty to freedom of speech and of within the bounds of decency and on the basis of our hopes and our we may be additionally I thankful for our the certainty I with which we may anticipate the ultimate j triumph Thank God for Optimism Thank God for their optimism and If thank God for their sense of May r their fine spirit be carried over to the folks I back And may those who are secure and as yet untouched by the forces of de- and devastation recognize and W ti thankful for the fact that they can enjoy h Thanksgiving Day in peaceful surrounding Ij where the shrieking of a siren does not mean l j the threatening of a robot j |
