Show Letter Describes Disabled Soldiers 6 Tho The following letter loiler from Cram Wilbur Lund to his relatives in Mantl 1 1 throws considerable light on the ino great responsibility resting upon I the American people in giving t I II I needed help to our soldiers as asI they return from the battle fields I of the wor world d. d I I came in from work today and andI I received the first mail mall from you ou ouI 1 I have had In about 4 days Th The i letter was the one which you enClosed en- en 1 Closed the letters from the Haynes It was good to hear about them I have haye thought of them themI I very often and wondered how th they y I were ere getting along alons I My job Is going along just fine CIne It is Just as hard and trying as ever but I believe that I am makIng making making mak mak- ing better assignments than I did didat at ct first The trouble Is that there are so many who are not able to todo todo todo do anything at all so many who are suffering from Crom some form of ot neurosis or battle hysteria It is absolutely pitiful to talk to some soma of tt them and to know that there is h JJ nothing you can do to help them I cant can't say too much about all this now but some day I 1 hope I can tan add my bit to the tho storm of or protest that will surely come out t of rif the treatment some o of the men mell are arc getting This experience has certainly confirmed my contentions in ono one respect l If I ever eyer go over OYer se seas s I I Ishall Ishall shall hope to go to the Asia Asta ic ie theatre It Is true that the clangers clangers cla dR- of or dl disease malaria ease malaria ory ry etc are etc are much greater h but hut the men who come back are ard in invariably invariably invariably in- in variably In much better condition than those coming back from tho the fighting In Italy I think it Ii Is lust because the tempo of or battle battlo Is so much greater In the European Europ Europ- ean theatre than it Is In the tho Pa ra- Time The Pacific Pa warfare Is morea more moro a 1 series of or person to person engagements en en- a where h- h man r rollee r ron on his own skill to bring him thru and it seems to build confidence rather than destroy it In the theother theother theother other war however the volume of battle is much greater p the enormous enormous enormous enor enor- number of ot tanks planes and guns the steady constant tension and the tho roar of or battle battIe the un certainty all together they do I things to the minds and nervous system of f he men that will never be corrected It is probably the tho realization of their individual In Insignificance Insignificance In- In significance in the face Cace of total war that really brings on the darlage dau- dau age I have Interviewed three men of or ofa ora a group who were held In a n German German German Ger Ger- man prison camp escaped hid behind behind be be- hind time the German lines for Cor nine months and fought their way ay to the army in Ital Italy These men Lave literally been blen through hell yet the thu fact that the they were on their own f fr fro r ro o long and could rely upon their Continued on Last Page Pago v J Letter ietter 0 Describes ascribes Facts Continued on Last Page Pago own still skill and Ingenuity apparently steadied their minds s and they are areO area O a l I On tho the other hand I have talked to men who vho have havo be been n in actual combat only a no coups of weeks during the tho Anzio battle who were In terrible condi condi- tion There Thele Is a large contingent of or photographers and nem from tram Time Life Lire Newsweek and newsreel companies etc coming comin here tomorrow to do dp some features on the station I wish ish they would publish the facts that lie neath all this bright gaudy exter- exter or But of course the public will get the same old eyewash r or orVell 0 Well Vell It sounds like I am g getting about things but It f that Im I'm Just dammed good and hued hind about things tonight but hut underneath underneath un un- enthused about Im I'm still sUIl I II It l. l At present we are aro ro so o rushed I j that hat we cant can't do the nw complete Job Jobi i we should do but that will be over ti I in a day or so and we can then f get t down to tho the kind of or thing the station was intended to 11 handle I 1 Ill I'll bet hot you h hope e I dont don't write many many uan letters like this It really reany sounds rather morbid but dont don't take it Il tr too o seriously It is Just my 1 j old habit of unloading all my troubles and private thoughts r ou on n you ou Just to relf relieve ve myself Ill I'll write you a nice personal letter etter tomorrow to morrow ro 1 |