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Show Letter From a , A Soldier on War S Risk Insurance A letter from a disabled soldier to his 'huddie.' nho evidently had written against the war lisk Insurance, has been distributed among Red Cross homo service ser-vice bureaus of the United States with I the view of show ing one soldier's Idea o. war risk insurance. The letter is as follows: "Dear Euddlc "Tomorrow I'll be a civilian again, u you've been through the mill you know just about how much sleep I'll get to nikiU thinking about tomorrow. When J cet that little old discharge that give a history of the cooties and mud I Uvea i through during thai Z months in Sunny France, believe mc. LSud. I ll be the most independent blid In these T'nlted States and that means the whole world. 'Now that I'm resting up from a cou- : pie of operatloni. it seems funny I should have been thinking ?o much about klcl'- ; hit i he bucket and about the government Insurance affair you wore knocking in your last letter But all I knew about it was that every time the wlndjamm.v blew -pav day.' 1 found that slx-.iix ' had been docked from my pay and When I was humped off my folks would collect ten thousand bones In real money. knew that the government would come clean with the Jack because I'd oeen putting put-ting what I didn't spend on Fattjtaias In a government bank, and had confidence In t'nele Sam's honest vVell, yesterday I got the dope on the ' matter. I made ( my business to "com-prcc' "com-prcc' it. for I want to protect my folks In case I should get a steady job pushing up daisies Here's the way I look at th; ! whole business If a man thought enough en-ough of his folks to tackle Jerries, wheth- er he tackled ' them at long distance, or ran them ragged up at the line why. that guy's not giving himself n so.uar? deal if he drops hia insurance. 'So, you bet I'm keeping up my o! I insurance the full ten thou' at the same old rales. The rates aTe good for f f years wiih couple of jits added on, Ana I I'm figuring get this. I'm figuring ih quite a few of us old-timers that got banged up over there or oer here. I be among the missing before those five , t years arc up "When the first week of the month J rolls around, 1 rri mailing in a money or- der for six-sixty to th bureau of war ' risk insurance in Wahington. I'll never miss that date or that Jack, and my UV will be nbl? to keep on thinking I'm a Kiiiart shootcn I'll ten th0 world I did i my bit by them over there and they're I not going to think that the war rais d j ! caln with my Ideas of duty. Me. I'm no I slacker. Arc you. Bud? ' Lei this percolate; kid I m not get-tlng get-tlng a plugged nickel for writing to vou lhisawa I'm Ju:st passing the goou Hung along to an old partner. Here's I luck, old tinier. "Yours till the next war, 'TIED. p S The Red Cross In your burg I will give you more dope on this. Hop to It. toot sweel!" |