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six months they did a lot of paying for your “K” Rations and your bullets.
They receive no medals or gratuities and you'll find them awfully glad to
see you back. They think a lot of you. They have great confidence in all of
you. They take comfort in the thought that you lads did your duty as you
saw it in the war, and that you will come home and do the same in peace.
Another angle too. When you come home you’re going to find some thousands
of little tykes and toddlers, who for five years have sacrificed their
birthday cakes and chocolate bars and invested their nickels in War Savings
Certificates. And Heaven help you all, and Graham Towers, and Donald
Gordon, if seven years from now those certificates are not worth their
weight in chewing gum and lipstick. They think you ate all the nut bars and
they have been very proud to let you have them. They know you won the
war for them, but they will want you to show them just what you did win.
I know you will.
In other words, there is a great future awaiting you as citizens living the
way of life you fought for and maintained. But the job of becoming a good
citizen will require almost as much planning, training, patience and skill as
it took to become a good soldier—and a certain amount of guts.
You can plan to rehabilitate yourself either as an “old soldier” for the next
thirty years, or as a new citizen. The choice is yours. Better start thinking it
over soon.