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Show SEND A LETTER TO THE SOLDIER. We never fully realized, until reading read-ing Apostle D. O. McKay's Interview today, the meaning of a letter to a soldier sol-dier boy. Tho Standard wants every mother, father, sister, sweetheart, brother, friend of a soldier to carefully consider consid-er what Apostlo McKay discovered when he visited an army aviation camp in old Virginia and saw the mail distributed. The interview appears in this issue of The Standard on one of our local pages. When the mail arrives at camp thore is a great rush. Every boy is expecting expect-ing to hear from home. A few aro gratified, but the many are disappointed. disappoint-ed. There must be homesickness in our cantonments, just as there was when Napoleon's army was in Egypt, and homesickness is one of the most trying of mind and he'art afflictions. It is said Napoleon's forces were permanently perma-nently weakened by the heartaches and some writers attribute the Corsi-can's Corsi-can's ultimate defeat to the broken down morale of the troops at that time. Apostlo McKay's observations should be printed as a government bulletin bul-letin and given nation-wide circulation in an effort to stimulate letter writing to tho soldier boys. The Standard is Informed the members mem-bers of the local organization known as the Women of American Patriots, regularly write to the soldiers and are expected to keop up the correspondence correspond-ence as a part of their patriotic duty. Tho practlco should spread to all parts of tho country. Today our first thoughts should be of tho boys who arc offering themselves them-selves as our protectors. |