The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-23
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 Hast week mm American flyer gave up his life. The price was Jap- anese battieship, Captain Coiln Kelly discovered tho answer to the fanatical suicide sQuadrons oe Japan. He found ik in his heart q. xt is the plain, simple phtriOt- ism of an American soldier.
 Captain Kelly made no statements about advancing the cause of avla- ton; his mind was too set on de- lending the cause of his country. He knew-as he dove-tlfat his Com mander-ins Chief could never pin Q medal on his chest. The silver bars on his shoulders were ample decora- tlon No one knows how many peaeetlEne miles he fiew-or what records he held. But the American people will remember forever that no plunged his last mile in the ser- vice Of his country ... His flying record can show only his hours In the air--but ia his last 30 seconds he paid for 150 years of the Bill of RAghts.
 oaptain Colin Kelly did not die in vain. Today he is asleep, But the United States that he loved-is awake.
 The scene is Honolulu, and the dialogue begins: "ListenI"
 The increasing roar sounded like the Burging swell Of voices from Q distant stadium,
 Planes" he said. "our patrol :" He shook his head. Too many" Tn the distance there were sharp explosicns-like vicious blasts of thunder. They rolled and cracked and echoed. A binding, jagged sheet Of yellow flame rose and
 !. well, it's come at last"
 ". What happened, sir? Was "vsry bed. They caught us flat- footed. Approached very high. Twenty, maybe thirty thousand feet The anti-aircraft boys held up their fire ="
 They knew just where to strike ana wiat to strike with"
 "They hit us with incendlaFies the first time over They caught the hangarD ct Hickan1 and even went out of their way to set fire to Rogers Airport buildings and the "... The enemy gave us three blasts It'll be days before we can patch up"
 ". Casualties heavy, SiF7"
 They scored Q direct hit on Schofleld barracks"
 Clipper service, of course, hes been suspended. The Japs are Teputed fond Of shooting down urls armed transport planes"
 C.. It was Japan that the United States was at war with.
 And Pearl HaFbOr, Blr2"
 "A mess They scored direct hits on the foundriee and on the pumping plant near the drydock. They burned the air station hang SITS The hospitals ell right, and they didn't hit any of the fuel "FeaFI lEarbor was cinch :. All they had to do was follow the coast line and blast away ."
 "But hoy could they get several hundred planes here2"
 "60d knows, Japan wouldn't have enough aircraft carriers q. My guess is that they got Q couple Of carriers through by travelling sway from the regular shipping lanes. That put 100 to ib0 Nttle Shipboard fighters h striking SThs raid occurred at eleven f0stystWo
 Ths bombing of the Island Of Oahu had occurred ct ii:42 ... The President Of the United States announced by radio to the county that America was at war with ,. Japan, whose fleets, even then, were headed eastward .
 "OuT country has known some black days, but Bone 70 black aS this one, God help us aill"
 The above ere excerpts from "LlghtnIne in the Night" by Fred AIIhefE, which appeared in Liberty Magazine, Sept. ,, t04O.
 Henry YOangman sayS he played on 6 program recently with the KanazaWR Japs They complained to the theater manager about bee ing billed AS JAps,
 "You want to Do called Japanese, you Fnean7"
 Nav" they reasoned, you don't call 0rete 09Fbo GwedcI"
 
 Deae Walter, Tn the new book, 'WIiI Rogers, written by his wife, Betty, Biii had this to say: Well, ell I read in the papers now is about some fellow named Edward Box, offering eiO00 for someone to Bug. geSt c plan where they can stop wars There ein't nobody on earth, I don't care how smart they are, ever going to make me believe they will ever stop wars. We gre not aS smart aS tho generation ahead Of IS, and they tried to stop them and haven't been able to, In fact, every war has been preceded by peace conference. That's what always starts the next war,
 "@The only way to do is just stay out Of them aB long as you can, and the best way to stay out of them for quite awhile ig, instead Of teaching c boz to run an automobile, teach him to fly, because the nation in the next var that atn't tip in the air is just going to get something