Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...COPY OF THE LETTER TO "DAD" AND SIGNED "LEE," DET. 120TH SIGNAL RADIO INTELLIGENCE, IN OCT. 12 ISSUE OF TIME, SHOULD BE SENT TO EVERY MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND POSTED IN EVERY DEFENSE PLANT IN AMERICA. IT IS THE TRUEST AND MOST POIGNANT EXPRESSION OF THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS TODAY. IT IS A RINGING CHALLENGE TO EVERY AMERICAN CITIZEN TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED AND NOT FOUND WANTING...
...Dear Dad...
...cause that might easily have been prevented had the people but realized the dangers of their shortsightedness, we shall not stand docilely on street corners selling apples; we shall not ashamedly wait in line to receive bread. The American soldier is not a child who can easily be fooled, Dad; he is too well informed...
...Dad, I would give a firm handshake, and to Mother, a tender kiss, for I am very proud of you both. America is not the land of your birth but, in your wisdom and devotion to this country you love, you have become finer, more worthy citizens than a good majority of people who can trace their citizenship back several generations. Although Christianity is not your avowed faith, in your daily lives you prove you are better Christians than many of those fine people who every Sunday attend that beautiful church on the corner several blocks away...
...Dad, tell them that my mind is sick and bitter. Tell them that I want to believe in my country but find it increasingly difficult to believe in its people. But who will listen? Who will want to listen to a solitary soldier crying out for justice? Who is interested in mere words when big money can be made-and the boys are dying in the Pacific...