Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1945-08-03
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Edward Duck
With The
18th Infnntry
in Germany
AN AILING WORLD
in Germany

AN AILANO WOhLD
FRIED BERG, Germany.
AS y read the news
papers and magazines of late
l cannot help but feel that all
of the hardships, suffering,
bleeding and dying of millions
of people all over the earth
cannot in itself accomplish
anything worth while.
War is destructive, and by
its very nature breeds hate. I
learned in basic training,
that we must save the world
from enslavement by over
coming those who fought for
the cause Of fasciSm and evil.
In doing this, in preserving
the dignity of the individual,
it was necessary to adopt the
motto, Kill Or Be KILLED..
No price is too great to pay
for freedom.
l have seen enough to con-
vince me that our enemies are
everything they were claimed
to be-not as individuals, but
as collective group which
carried out a policy handed
down from above. Many of
them did not wish for war, but
they had no choice in the mat
ter.
WE WONDER
But even before the war has
been finished-yes, before our
men have set foot upon Japan
things are happening which
cannot help but make us won
der just what will be the
outcome of the risks and
sacrifices and injuries and
losses of life which American
young men accept as part
of their patriotic duty TO God
and Country.
1t takes more than blood
and courage, more than Slo-
gans and pep talks, more than
patriotism and earnest en-
deavor to fight for what is
right, to win this war. 1t
takes honesty at home
charge that the fighting
men and the common people
all over the world are not re-
ceiving the kind of honesty to
which they are entitled.
However it is not entirely
matter of honesty. Nor is it
a matter of two human ele-
ments-honesty or greed.
Since I am governed by the
Articles of War, / am not al
lowed to speak disrepscetfully
of congressman. But war or no
war, their sins are being null
tiplied while good men die.
IN AMERICA
A gentleman from Missis-
sippi an American raves and
rants in an endless filibuster
so that millions of American
voters cannot cast their ballot
against him and others like
him. And we are losing our
lives to bring democracy to
fascist-controlled peoples.
A Senatorial committee dis
approved a proposed twenty
dollar a week bonus for serv-
icemen. And the United States
has spent $18O,000, 900, 900 to
carry on the European phase
of the war.
In conjunction with the Re-
publican National Committee,
a Republican Veterans" or
ganization has organized in al
most thirty states, to make
sure that Servicemen-Repub-
lican servicemen, if you please
control things in America.
VETERANS TREATMENT
In veterans hospitals, men,
tai patients are bound and
beaten, kicked and abused, by
moronic sadistic buns, be-
cause the wages are so unat-
tractive as not to entice in
telligent, decent men.
Peacetime conscription of
American youth is being press
agented, servicemen are ac-
cusing the military of propa-
gandizing them in its favor,
and the militarism we are
fighting to destroy is being
glorified by those who are not
privates, Pies, nor non-com-
missioned officers.
Super" seniority is being
concocted and publicized, al
tho 1t is really of no concern
to its sponsors, or at least does
not properly belong in the
category of duties assigned to
them.
A &c. |. Bill of Rights" is
presented as a philanthropic
piece of legislation, but the
vast majority of servicemen
are disguSted with it In
President Truman's person
al request for an improved un-
employment C m p e n sation
schedule falls upon deaf con-
gressional ears Service
men in the Pacific fight on for
the cause of the common peo-