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..THEY ARE HOMEWARD BOUND_ TAKE CARE OF THEM''

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The above immortal words concluded the address which the "Magnificent MacArthur" delivered to the people of America at the formal surrender of the Japs.

Let the following excerpts from that address sink into your soul. There have been few statements to compare with these made in American history. He said: t<{.* t<*{.

"My fellow countrymen: Today the gtrns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won' The skies no longer rain death. The seas bear only commerce. Men everywhere WALK UPRIGHT IN THE SUNLIGHT.

"The entire world is quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed. And, in reporting this to you, the people, I speak for the thousands of silent lips, forever stilled among the jungles and the beaches and in the deep waters of the Pacific, which marked the way. *t*

..I SPEAK FOR THE UNNAMED BRAVE MILL. IONS HOMEWARD BOUND TO TAKE UP THE CHALLENGE OF THAT FUTURE !\IHICH THEY DID SO MUCH TO SALVAGE FROM THE BRINK OF DTSASTER

"As I look back on the long, tortuous trail from those grim days of Bataan and Corregidor when an entire world lived in fear; when democracy was on the defensive everywhere; when modern civilization trembled in the balance; I THANK A MERCIFUL GOD THAT HE HAS GIVEN US THE FAITH, THE COURAGE, AND THE POWER FROM WHICH TO MOULD VICTORY. *** t<*{<

"We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war."

(And MacArthur, after other praiseworthy and beautifully worded remarks, closed thus:)

"To the Pacific basin has come the vista of a new and emancipated world. Today, freedom is on the offensive, democracy is on the march. Today, in Asia as in Europe, unshackled peoples are tasting the full sweetness of 'liberty' the relief from fear.

"And so, my fellow countrymen, today I report to you that your sons and daughters h'ave served you well and faithfuUy with the calm, deliberate, determined fighting spirit oi the American soldier and sailor, based on a tradition of historical trait, as against the fanaticism of an enemy supported only by mythological fiction; and their spiritual strength and power has brought us through to victory'

The realism, clarity, and grandeur of the mind of General MacArthur is well demonstrated in the above words' And a new book just issued by Duell, Sloan & Pierce, and edited by Frank C. Waldrop, lends further fame to the eloquence of "Magnificent Mac," when it quotes from his farewell address to the Rainbow Division, which he led through the First World War. in which he used these words:

"on such an occasion "Janir, ,ly -ita goes back to those men who went with us to their last charge' In memory's eye f can see them now, forming grimly for the attack, bluelipped, covered with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind arra rain of the fox hole, DRIVING HOME TO THEIR I OBJECTIVE AND THE JIIDGMENT BAR OF GOD. I do not know the dignity of their birth; but I do know the glory of their death. They died unquestioning, uncomplaining, with faith in their hearts, and on their lips the hope that we would go on to victorY."

Truly, MacArthur is not only epical as a soldier and leader, he is likewise tremendous as an orator. Not in decades has any American uttered words of his own thinking and making that compare in eloquence, and depth, and grandeur with those quoted "Oot". * * *

And his concluding words-"They are homeward bound -takecareofthem,''shotrldbemadethefirstlineofthink. ing and doing for every true American heart' When they gei Uack and seek to find a place again in the world of peace' l.t th.- never for a single moment have cause to doubt or even guestion our gratitude. Let us remember always the feeling of unbelievable trust and pride we felt for them *hen with fire and sword they were stopping the onward sweep of evil across the world-protecting with their own fesh everything that we held dear-and let us act accord' ingly. Helping our soldiers to get on in the world should be the test of every true man; and the lack of such help should be the well publicized attitude of a slacker. "Magnificent MacArthur" is sending them back to us. Take care of them.

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