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Show An Overseas G. I. Looks Forward By GEORGE PECK On Christmas night, In the closing moments of the "Galva-cade "Galva-cade of America," radio program the E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Inc., Walter Houston Hous-ton read a letter which had been recieved from a soldier, a G. I. serving somewhere overseas. What this G. I. wrote is so powerful and beautiful that I would like to pass it on to the readers of this column who may have missed it on the air. If you did hear it, it will do your soul good to read it again and again. Wrote the G. I.: "At the moment it is difficult to think of victory as meaning I anything but an end of fear, to loneliness and death, and a chance to go back to pick up the strads of interrupted life. Hence- forth each simple pleasure, each right we always took so lightly will take on rich meaning. We know what it cost to keep them and we know, too, that we have really earned a share in them. "But victory, means much more. With victory we stand on the threshold of limitless inventions and comforts; we possess the resources re-sources to extend our horizons in every field of endeavor and every aspect of human relations. "However, ancient and stubborn enemies are still to be conquered, enemies which must be overcome not by armies but by minds and hearts and talents set wholly free. Such enemies are poverty, insecurity, inse-curity, prejudice, disunity. These, too, shall be conquered, for we have begun to think more deeply and more dynamically, and if we can sweep aside untold obstacles to smash the most ruthlessly ef. ficient machines of destrnrtinn ever devised, surely we poises J vision and practical genlm to ganize for peace, security anc i world designed for living. ''Till now many have raise cause of accident of birth aj power of wealth, but thmiii-;; the world the unfit, the eaijj and the traitors are falling'6; i wayside. New leaders are & from the people-r-those tls sold their heritage of cos faith, and simple, human ip "With victory we shall $ destroyed those who would enslaved the world. Our sc: have been great but wekte: the opportunity to emerge ; the animal kingdom and en!e kingdom of man. I look for to living in such a world." Surely, if, this soldier, ? from home and loved ones, rk his life and undergoing ir hardships, can send such a : sage, those of us on the front can look forward to lie: a better America when the ; is over. His letter is a chi-: to us to make sure that fc; turns to a free America-oii erica of opportunity for , where initiative, industry : thrift will still be encouraged rewarded an America in r. the soil will have been so: tured that out of it will gnu: kind of a acountry this G.I: envisioned and which he nil l'ichlv rtpwrra |
