did any of it get in the papers about a kind of magic i call commerce chip i don't know but as a war correspondent which is a fancy name for a reporter whose beat is the battlefield instead of the courthouse so the play station as a war correspondent i tried to write about it back there during the second world war a lot of us tried once a nice guys name any pilot jack singer and many others died trying but all of  there and later on in korea it's magic i'm talking about anybody who's ever been close to american soldiers fighting overseas has felt i still had that night in one nine hundred forty four in the rubble of a farm somewhere in europe a kind of bond the tied together a bunch of guys and made them into a fighting unit the magic of comradeship among a new york cop a high school coach from iowa an insurance salesman from california a texas haberdasher and a dairy farmer from minnesota is magic too strong a word well i don't think so and i've seen it at work aboard ships of the navy and in the cramped quarters of a bomber i've seen it in remote and lonely spots of the earth where the enemies are monotony and boredom i saw it in world war two and i saw it in career i know men who told me about it in the first world war and the spanish american war they tell me spellbound with their stories when i was a kid the the magic of technical skill the magic of leadership comradeship and every time i saw it in battle it seemed to me it would be a tragic thing if we lost it when the war ended in fact i used to wonder what would happen to these men after the war where would they go oh i suppose the lucky ones would go back to their home towns and their jobs and wives and girls and pick things up just as before and in a way that was wonderful but also in a way it would be too bad  the question that is nagged at the minds of a lot of guys where did it all go what happened to the unity that feeling of belonging to a team of standing up to the enemy alongside a guy that would bomb your well i've been on the trail of an answer and i think i've found that the magic of comradeship is still working in this country of ours still fighting her enemies enemies which are doubly dangerous because they are sort of intangible and hard to identify the trail started for me on a street corner not far from this office was an unusual thing for new york city a parade but what a parade well i guess everyone loves parades but this one particularly gave me a kick because of its timing here the veterans of foreign wars had taken mayday which the commies have been trying for years to make their own special holiday and turned it into the exact opposite a loyalty day on which americans of every kind stepped up to the music of a band to show their love for the kind of freedom we have it seemed to me that there was one way the v f w had applied the magic of comradeship in peace time by calmly bouncing the communists out of their favorite propaganda spots but parades alone don't beat enemies and i thought of some of the enemies we have in america today the enemy of juvenile delinquency weakening the fabric of our society eroding our most precious resource our young men and women the enemy of apathy toward our political problems leaving the door open for the grafter the subversive the traitor the tool of pressure groups across the competent the enemy of neglect of our veterans which undercuts the pride with which young men wear the uniform of their country this is the cruel enemy which keeps disabled veterans from proving that they can still use for jobs in business and industry neglect that punishes children because their fathers served their country the enemy of smugness which lets our national defense is dwindle away which discourages young americans from seeking careers in our armed forces which weakens our reserve components in our national guard those are the enemies the enemies within america eating away at our national strength weakening our resistance to communism how i wonder could the magic of comradeship that one fighting wars be brought to bear against the enemy what does the w are doing to fight these enemies enemy of juvenile delinquen well the national marble tournaments is one of the ways it is from every state in the union from embry walk of life gather together to test the heart learn the skills and love how they open competition that is the heritage of every american  f w post throughout the country carry on thousands of projects to provide such recreational opportunities the model tournaments because it is unique is perhaps the best known that serious business but it's fun to