CHRISTMAS MAIL FOR SOLDIERS SHOULD MalLED SEPTE.IBER 15 TO OCTOBER 15 BE eh TN ORDER CONDITION, BY THAT CHRISTMAS THE ADDNESSES THE WITH OFFICE THE (THE LATTER COAST MAY ON TIME AND IN GOOD. ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE. POST ATION PARCELS DEPARTMENT WAR AND NAVY INCLUDING SUARD) FOR IN COOPER™ DEPARTMENTS THE MARINES THE ACCEPTANCE AND OF SUCH PARCELS FOR MEMBERS OF OUR ARMED FoecEs SERVING OUTSIDE THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES. THE PERSONNEL OF OUR OR FLEET POST OFFICE IN Care OF THE rosT‘MASTER AT NE“ YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, NEW ORLEANS, MIAMA,. FLA, P ESQUE ISLE, MAINE WASH., OR THROUGH A NAVAL |New STALLATION OR STATION IN GAPE OF THE POST~ MASTEN OF SE*TTLE, “ASH., APE REQUESTED TO MAIL CHRISTMAS PARCELS PERIOD BEGINNING SEPTEMBEe OCTOBER 15, THE EARLIFR THE PEQUESTS FROM THE ADNPESSFS IN CONNECTION “ITH PAPCFLS DUD ING THE 15-4ND ENDING BETTER, NO ARE PEQUIPED MAILED TO EACH SOLDIERS DURING THIS PFRIOD ONLY, GIFT P°RCEL SHOULD BE ENDORSED "CHE ST= MAS PARCEL, SPECIAL EFFORT ™ILL BE MADE TO EFFECT DELIVERY OF ALL CHRISTMAS PARCELS MAILED DURING THE PFRIOD IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. SIZE AND WEIGHT: NEED FOR IN VIEW @F THE URGENT SHIPPING SPACE TERIALS TO TRANSPORT DIRECTLY ESSENTIAL Mae TO THE WwaR EFFORT, CHRISTMAS PARCELS SHALL NOT CEED THE PRESENT LIMITS OF 5-POUNNS EX= IN WEIGHT IN OR 195 INCHES IN LENGTH OP 36 LENGTH AND GIRTH COMBINED, THESE DEPAP TMENTS HAVE POINTED OUF ALSO THAT MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES °RE AMPLY PROVIDED “1TH FOOD AND CLOTHING, AND THE FUBLIC 1S URGED NOT TO |NCLUDE SUCH MATTER IN GIFT PARCELS. NOT MOTSE THAN ONE CHRISTMAS PARCEL O° PACKAGE “ILL BE ACCEPTED FOR MAILING AT THE PRESENT AND AFTER LESS, 15 IN SEALED "ITHOUT 8 OZ. OCT. UP TO.5 ONTIL ALL FaPCELS CONTAINERS * "EQUEST, AND IN ONE EEK, TIME, CON .SEOTY 15 8 NZ, OR BF MAILED BUT 4LL PARCELS over LB. MUST BF ye SEP aey : omen me, AT tere em LIFE me ee Ae ee WHAT ARE “WE FIGHTING FOR? OH, YOU HEAP ALL SOSTS OF NOBLE SENTI4~ MENTS, WONDERFUL Abn AND YOU READGREAT EDITOP14LS, INST IRING MESSAGES AND BEAUTIFUL SPTICLES. BUT LETTER HES E'S SOMETHING FROM A SCLDLERTS THAT: TELLS YOU (MUCH: BETTER THAR ANYTHING 1 HOVE PEAB WHAT TTES “LE ABOUT, TS WHAT HE “RITES FROM NORTH AFRICA: JUNE 21, 2ND 1'M MANY MILES AM™AY FROM JANESVILLE, “ISCONSIN, WHETE & HAD HOPED TO BE “ITH MY MOTHER AND FATHER “HO CELE BEATE THEIR SOTH YEDDING ANNIVERSARY TO. DAY. | “SS THINKING OF THIS LATE YES@ TERDAY “HEN A FRIEST CAME IN BY FONT FROM THE BUSH. HE TOLD US HE "COULD SAY MASS IN THE MORNING, SO | ARRANGED “ITH HIM THAT HE OFFER THE YASS FOR THE FOLKS AND THETR ANNIVERSARY, TAPS ARMED FOPCES WHO MECEIVE THEIR MAIL THROUGH AN AcPa0,- OR SEATTLE, een LOOKING ello RE*CH ee ACCOMPAN . ED BY A LETTE FROM THE SOLDIFP BEARING A PEQUEST FOR THE ARTICLES FNCLOSEA iN THE PACKAGE, AND PRESENTED AT THE TASCEL POST, MA LITTLE ALTAR CAS SET UP aP THE BACKe GROUND BEING THE SCREEN USED THE NIGHT BE@ FORE FOR A MOVIE “ITH MeeG\E HART 4S THE LEAD. "WHILE THE PRIEST WAS SAYING MASS, RAIN CAME NOWN IN TOPPENTS, *NO THE BEAT OF A NOTIVE D&UM OFF IN THE BUSH MINGLED “1TH THE DRONE OF 4N ATRPLANE MOTOR TUNING UP. HEP WAS “AR, SND THE “NCITENT SCUND OF THE JUNGLE, ANO THE MODERN MACHINE AGE ALL MIX« ED UP, BUT ABOVE THEM POSE THE STEADY VOICE OF THE PRIEST &S HE CHANTED THE “0205S THAT WILL OUTLIVE ALL 4GES AND CH*NGES, _ WHEN MENTIONED TOWN, IT WHOT THE | HEADD THE PP aver AND THE NOME OF MY PEOPLE DAWNED UTON ME SLL CF OA WAP 1S SLL ABOUT, "HEN AND HE MY SUDDEN "IT'S FOP ME AND MY FRLKS AT HOME," YES, THAT'S “HAT “E APE FIGHTING FOR—IF WE STOP "MRKING AND S4VING AND PAY| NG "NO GETTING AFTER raid wR MYTH ALL WE'VE GOT, WFYRE SIMPLY LYING OO¥N AND QUITTINGS "SEVER*L TIMES RECENTLY 1 HAD BEEN WONDER ING WHAT THIS THING 1S @LL SBOUT, "HY MEN A°E BLEEDING AND DYING, THOUSANDS OF MILES _ AWAY FROM HOME, WE AREN'T YELLOW, ARE WE?2m