Pace Four

THE NAVYATOR

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1943

 

 

The Christmas mail rush . . . Specialists Toney, Kahn and Law-

rence weather the deluge.

 

Testament Of Youth

 

(NOTE—We reprint this letter which ap-
peared in the Reader’s Digest some months
ago because it is one of the finest utter-
ances that has come from this war. Its
simplicity of style and dignity of thought
place it in the classe occupied by the truly
great letters of the world.)

 

A letter from a U. S. Naval flier,
missing since the Battle of Mid-
way, to a friend at home:

“The fates have been kind to me
and when you hear people saying
harsh things, about American

they all are. So many times that
now they have become common-
place, I’ve seen incidents that
make me know that we were never
soft, never weak.

“Many of my friends are now
dead. To a man, each died with a
nonchalance that each would have
denied was courage, but simply
called a lack of fear and forgot
the triumph. If anything great or
good has been born of this war, it
should be valued in the youth of
our country, who were never
trained for war, who almost never
believed in war, but who have,
from some hidden source, brought
forth a gallanery which is home-
spun, it is so real.

“Out here between the spaceless
sea and sky, American youth has
found itself, and given of itself, so
that a spark may catch, burst into
flame, and burn high. If our coun-
try takes these sacrifices with in-

 

difference it will be the cruelest

youth, you will know how wrong }.

 

Navy War Bond Sales
Up For Third Month

For the third consecutive month
Navy War Bond purchases to-
taled more than $25,000,000 when
November sales aggregated $25,-
078,425 to personnel in all activities
within the Naval establishment.
This total was the fourth largest
in the history of the Navy War
Bond program.

Of the November sales, $15,-
591,696 represented bond purchases
by civilian employees of the Navy
under the payroll savings plan;
$7,140,544 were allotment pur-
chases by uniformed personnel of
the Navy; Marine Corps and Coast
Guard, and $2,346,185 were cash
purchases by uniformed and ci-
vilian personnel.

 

Service At Air Base

At 1000 today, Chaplain Wolf —
will conduct a special Christmas
service at the Monterey Naval Air
Base. The cadet choir will partici-
pate in the service with a program
of Yuletide music.

 

ingratitude the world has ever
known.

“You will, I know, do all in your
power. to help others keep the
faith, My luck can’t last much
longer. But the flame goes on and
only that is important.”

 

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