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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 246, 10 March 1944, Page 5

99 my Son flies When he was little chap, be said he But he didn't He built more models, Suddenly I realised he had growa was going to be a pilot studied engines and radio. He wanted UP, that he was 0 man, and not boy to Ay any more: He never forgot it nor did I I dreaded the time when he should ask I knew I should be wise that I knew 1 understood then that it was not Aying I thought that some day Id have to 8ay best and that Td say "No" feared, but the cutting of the invisible 66 NO apron strings that holds 8 mother to her I suppose 1 was afraid. Flying was some- son. Now he was man; and wanted thing 1 had seen grow. It was something to take his part in a young man 8 world: When he was ten he built his first I always thought of as new and experi- 1 said "Yes model: It actually flew- and how proud mental _ and dangerous. he was 1 Then the day came when he did agk; I Im proud he fies. Tm proud of my remember how I had been dreading it: son, because he is a man and a leader, I was proud, too, because he was only But there was something in his eyes and and because now and in the future; he IO, but I thought: It'8 only 0 hobby his voice; and suddenly I saw him a8 I will help to build a better world, in the he'Il forget it: never had before: way that he wantsa You 1 be proud of your son in the Victory Squadrons An illustrated folder on Aircrew training can be obtained from any Royal New Zealand Air Force Recruiting Office, Or will be sent post-free and without obligation by writing to the Air Secretary, Air Department, Wellington AT.55.24