From The Far East I Send You

They Died Hard, Those Savage Men - Like Wounded Wolves At Bay. They Were Filthy, And They Were Lousy, And They Stunk. And I Loved Them.

By Profession I Am A Soldier And Take Great Pride In That Fact, But I Am Prouder, Infinitely Prouder, To Be A Father. A Soldier Destroys In Order To Build; The Father Only Builds, Never Destroys. The One Has The Potentialities Of Death; The Other Embodies Creation And Life.

It Seems Strangely Difficult For Some To Realize That Here In Asia Is Where The Communist Conspirators Have Elected To Make Their Play For Global Conquest, And That We Have Joined The Issue Thus Raised On The Battlefield; That Here We Fight Europe's War With Arms While The Diplomats There Still Fight It With Words; That If We Lose The War To Communism In Asia The Fall Of Europe Is Inevitable, Win It And Europe Most Probably Would Avoid War And Yet Preserve Freedom. As You Pointed Out, We Must Win. There Is No Substitute For Victory.

Talk Of Imminent Threat To Our National Security Through The Application Of External Force Is Pure Nonsense. Our Threat Is From The Insidious Forces Working From Within Which Have Already So Drastically Altered The Character Of Our Free Institutions - Those Institutions We Proudly Called The American Way Of Life.

One Cannot Wage War Under Present Conditions Without The Support Of Public Opinion, Which Is Tremendously Molded By The Press And Other Forms Of Propaganda.