SALUTE TO SOLDIERS
Sir,-I write this to say "Thank you" for what you write in your leaders each week. There is always food for thought, sometimes for self-reproach-I_ wish you could be spared a double-column. I refer specially now to the leader of June 16, "Salute the Soldiers." Aye, the real salute comes from the heart, dedicated to service for one’s fellows-not from noisy clapping. So often when listening to the tales of bravery and endurance, one is smitten with the thought, "We here in New Zealand are not worthy of such blood and tears." The least we can do surely is to strain every nerve to make the. country-and its workers of all grades-above reproach. I’ve taught in country and city schools for over 35 years, and I’ve seen the names of so many of my old scholars fallen in action er coming home maimed. Have some of
our New Zealanders no imagination, no spiritual, or even mental discernment to assess the heroism of these young lives, so freely given, while here we live luxuriously, and take it as a matter of
course?
W. M.
YOUNG
(Onehunga)-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 264, 14 July 1944, Page 7
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188SALUTE TO SOLDIERS New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 264, 14 July 1944, Page 7
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