Originally printed: April 22, 1942
Originally printed: April 22, 1942
nice cartoon!
my favorite of the WW2 period is an OFFICIAL WAR DEPT. poster with crossed US & CSA battleflags, which says,
"JOIN THE ARMY & HELP THE SOUTH WIN THE WAR!"
that about says it all.
free dixie,sw
Operation Tribute to Freedom Essay Contest Top Sixth Grade Winners Tell What Freedom Means to Them
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8, 2003 — Lindsey Rettke from Mililani, Hawaii, has watched her father deploy in the name of freedom throughout her life. In the Weekly Reader’s Operation Tribute to Freedom essay contest, she remembered being “a confused and scared 5-year-old girl, clinging to my dad’s leg” and not wanting to let go as he deployed to Bosnia.
Four years later, Lindsey remembers that “tears rolled down my cheek” as she hugged her father goodbye when he deployed to Kuwait. “But once again,” she wrote, “my mom told me not to worry.”
Now, at age 11, she wrote that her father is once again preparing to deploy, this time to Afghanistan. “Now that I am older and more experienced, I understand what freedom means,” she wrote in her essay, the top winner among entries from sixth-graders throughout the United States.
“Freedom means that it is okay to be sad, scared and lonely at times,” she wrote. “But most of all, freedom means being proud of an American soldier, my dad.”