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pended in our history as a nation. These wars involve the Hfe and death of empires. These wars involve the survival or destruction of philosophies of life. These wars are being fought by our enemies with all of their strength and power. For every advance they mean that we should pay . . . and pay heavily in blood, tears, and sweat. There's no better way to evaluate the price than to reiterate Winston Churchill's words to the British people. That tonight is all that the American people have ahead of them as they stride unflinchingly down the road to victory. The destruction of the German seventh army is but a milestone on that road. The fall of Warsaw will be but another. The bombing of Japan by the B-29s (which has again taken place) is only one episode in a deadly war of attrition which is being fought over millions of square miles of this world. What price over-optimism? The answer is prolongation of the war. What price wishful thinking? The answer is more dead, more wounded, more suffering. What price flying in the face of facts? The answer is strength given indirectly to the enemy.
January. 1945
Where do we find the antidote? We find it in the words of George Klym, whose home was in Gorham, North Dakota, out in the rugged Bad Lands and Butte country, thirty miles northwest of Dickinson. These words were : "Don't move me. Just show me where to shoot." George Klym was doing his regular midnight watch in a foxhole in Aitape on the island of New Guinea. With an automatic rifle he stood alone a^inst a Japanese suicide charge. Japanese bullets, directed by the flames of his rifle, found their mark on the body of this North Dakota boy. The searing enemy lead crashed through his eyeballs to destroy his sight. With both of his eyes shot out, he maintained his fire. He was still blazing away as he crumpled to the ground. He saved the lives of possibly fifty American comrades. He stood alone in the breach while his company formed into line of battle. When the stretcher bearers reached him he spoke: "Don't move me. Just show me where to shoot." Then he died. Blind in both eyes, he still had the vision which America must have if it is to win this war. "Don't move me. Just show me where to shoot."
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A WET PLATFORM
It was durinij: Prohibition. The railroad station was packed with a gay going..way throng. Over at one side of the platform stood a quiet little man fidgeting about and trying to hide himself from the crowd. A Federal Agent noticed that the stranger had something in his coat pocket from which drops were falling in slow trickles. The Fed., with a gleam in his eye, collared the gent. "Scotch^" he asked accusingly.
"Nope," said the stranger. "Airedale pup."
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John Erskine on the limitations of grammar: "Grammarians will tell you that two negatives make a positive, but when my child says: '1 don't want no soup! we know exactly what he means."