European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 sight hour up Day dear yank first let me say that in my opinion the greatest morale Buster in the army is i hear quite a bit about building up the morale of the but still nothing is done about i read saw and have done 16 hours of and usually about the 16th hour a mans nerves Are on then it a up Pusher usually one who has just relieved another Pusher goads him about getting off his Lazy this is  some system be set up where two soldiers could do an eight hour shift instead of one doing a 16hour one in sure it would help Boca Raton Cpl Avallone demobilization dear yank i have my doubts that the demobilization plan is based upon the views of a fair Cross Section of the i for one have not lost Faith in the honesty and sportsmanship of the american i have talked to Over 100 Young Fellows and i thank god that the Fel lows who live and can observe the actions of their buddies who Are 38 years of age and do not express the same views that the demobilization plan would have us believe they the older fellow finds the going twice As hard and he is out of every thing such As sports and other pubs dont interest him and he is too tired to go gallivanting around he More or less Sticks close to his the Young fellow has practically nothing on his mind to worry about Back Home on the other nine out of every 10 Fellows in the 38year bracket have we after due have arrived at the conclusion that age should head the list in any demobilization England Weber dear yank Gordon Crowe asserted Lin the Soldier Speaks who should be discharged first after the that the Only fair Way to demobilize veterans is to discharge those regardless of dependency or physical being of very understanding natures we can see this Birds Point of though he cant see since he refers to All opinions other than his own As obviously he was drafted obviously he has a soft of it in his recruiting Job in those awful obviously he is afraid that he May be sent to the after this european mess is won for him by the soldiers in this and forced to do some soldiering himself for a infantry others from the artillery and still others were combat these veterans of Guadalcanal and were awarded the privilege of wearing the with the reservation that they received no Money with normally it Means a month extra the pay would have amounted to by and to gis that a lot of another the infantry raises its platoon sergeants to technical squad leaders to staff sergeants and assistant squad leaders to the troopers of the recon troop have not come under that ruling we still have Staft sergeants for platoon sergeants and corporals for squad cant something be done to give recognition to the cavalry when it works so closely with the infantry Boug Oryille t5 Edward signed by 12 bet dear yank my buddy and i had an argument about the Cen Tury we Are living in i claim that we Are Liv ing in the and my buddy claims that we Are living in the 19th Tell me who collects the 10 Bucks we Italy Edward Schultz you but you ought to be ashamed to take the visiting generals dear yank i would like to know what the hell this army is coming we heard Lear was coming on a tour of inspection at this the Headquarters de tailed a Man to Wash the outside of their building with a Brush inthe its hard for a Man to go in the Field and work in rain and but when it comes to washing a build ing in it because a general is they might As Well let All the army go i dont think the morale of a Man could be very High after something like and i dont think a general or any other inspecting officer expects a Man to Stop his training to do such screwy details As Camp signed by three Belgium also signed by five Camp dear yank get out your spit and polish As some brass hat from Washington is visiting the so we dust and primp and put on the act for this shining How much better he would learn the conditions if he came in unannounced and seen actual training conditions and Stop having the men being tormented by his in one Case we were restricted to the Post while this brass hat was Here on tour for two in buy Bonds and am an but when you see things As it drives a Guy nuff withheld dear yank Here is one i who thinks Crowe uses his head for something besides just a resting place for a steel Hel i believe he gave this discharge business a Little How Many gis have any say As to what part they play did they ask How or where they wanted to go some some lots of us would have changed places and still this comes from the heart of a i who will Wager Hes been As scared As you have who has been in the army 42 months in a medical detachment not to his but it is an honorable i believe i can say Ive seen a Little i hold no medals or purple but did manage to get a piece of shrapnel in my head while picking up a buddy under a barrage in Germany Dan Edwards is hash necessary dear yank could it be that our army dieticians deem this meat and vegetable Stew As a necessary component of the ration imperative to our impossible to do irreplaceable and this corned beef and its first corned beef they the Only Means of keeping us Vitamin Zed after these years of repetition in overseas cant something be done to blend a new tasty canned product containing the same nutritive values even the natives wont eat this let alone the Carrion Are the gis expected to accept it As a main dish fix it any Way you like or any Way that is conceivable by the human its still unpalatable and a waste of valuable shipping space signed by five others of the mess foot borne cavalry dear yank this is a Ripe from men though traditionally have Ihmi Lif huns As infantrymen in the Jungles of More than one Pacific Are Cav to Notni to members the cavalry reconnaissance lion pot the americal through almost three years thus troop has fought the the p hav ing penetrated farther into d than Hose of lasting peace dear yank i have read the Many articles in your Magazine on a lasting peace after this War with almost every i has thought about and discussed the sub so i would like to express the ideas of my Fox Hole buddies and my idea is this if these people can believe in hit Ler and could be taught his then they surely can is taught the ways of the after the take one person age 11 to 21 out of every in Germany on a tour so that they May see the destruction that has been done in France and let them see with their own eyes what the powerful War machine of the has done to these countries to free them of nazi in this Way we could prove to them that the has the pinups and coveralls dear yank in one of your issues you had a picture of Glamor gals who wanted to know if gis were getting fed up with that particular kind of pin i would like to be the first one to Register a big yes on a recent i noticed some very Choice females who were wearing they were going to and from they had been working hard turning out the stuff we need to win the anyway they Are doing something besides advertising their Why  the War plants choose the Sweet things among them and turn their pictures in if these doggies must drool Over something after they Are the gals we Are coming Home to and the ones who Are doing the most to get us some of these Fanny dancers  give up their if the enemy was on the Pafik t3 Lewis we started out As a Squadron of cavalry men were brought in from All other some were from Page 14 dear yank in regard to these Slick the answer is definitely and positively no were hoping for Newfoundland fast Rel by von most powerful War machine in the world and cannot be stopped by then have these people tour the so they can see that it was never touched by War und that the propaganda they received about the numerous cities destroyed in the was when they have completed this revealing the Best Neur psychiatrists in the should conduct i school to teach them our democratic Way of life and prove by facts that they were living in a world of when these people have Learned and understood the american they will be Able to convince upon returning to that the american Way is far better than France 1st Dalke cigarette rations dear yank there is a serious shortage of cigarettes in the and now we Are feeling it Over this week the pm Cut Down the ration from eight to seven with a warning that it might be Cut Down still at the same time gis were told they  buy both cigars and cigarettes the same As Many had been i hear the cigarette ration has been reduced pretty drastically in France and North and that Italy May be in not bitching about the reduced though i want As much As the next Guy to get my full but i think it ought to be pointed out that the gis themselves have in Many instances caused a bad situation to get worse by letting cigarettes into the hands of irresponsible some soldiers have Given away Large quantities of cigarettes through a misdirected feeling of generosity or pity toward the other soldiers have dealt directly with Slimy Blac Market operators who pay As much As ii Carton of resell the cigarettes at an even More exorbitant its getting so that tobacco is an accepted medium of Exchange in this soldiers Arent helping to solve any of Italy Many economic problems or to make the work of Allied administration any easier when they give away cigarettes to civilians or sell them to Blac Market Italy George Scott Freedom of religion dear yank what is the Deal on an Ems Freedom of religion in the army every Post i have been stationed at seemed to insist that All soldiers be classified As either Catho protestant or in spite of the fact some pm wanted it put on the record they either had no preference or were outright one Soldier was informed by his co that if he persisted in a desire to have atheist placed on All his i he could never Hope for a rating beyond for a Chance at oct or for any favors usually the lot of pm who followed army life according to regu furthermore this particular Soldier was threat ened with a dishonourable discharge for his tenacious insistence that he was an atheist and not a Catholic or recently i had to be and when they asked me what religion i stated no my records were marked it seems to in our insistence on the four freedoms we should be equally vigilant to protect them at whats the Deal Utah withheld con openers dear yank Here is a suggestion that i Hope int taken the wrong if the brewing companies would drop an opener in every Case of Beer which is sent it would be appreciated very it would also Stop a hell of a lot of waste and de Gentry