European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sass asses Vajday the announcement everybody had been waiting Day after Day of Rumor and counter a Long time and Relief was As audible As Celebration when final word came it was what we had been fighting the reason we had been in uniform for a year or two or now the War was it is a Little hard to Analyse the immediate meaning of anything youve been thinking about for so Long so the first feeling is bound to be a bit of a after you say its Over for the first few times and get used to the after you after the shouting Dies there is bound to be a certain the War is Over and you suddenly realize that you have been living with War for a Good slice of your you certainly Arent going to miss the but its hard for a moment for most of us to think of How things will its like an itch that youve got used to scratching and All of a sudden along comes a drug that cures it you still feel a slight inclination to go on scratching and you have to remind yourself that there is nothing to you have to make an Effort to apply yourself to ail the things you dreamed of doing if you Ever got time off enough from scratching to do the end of the War Means for most of us that we will be getting out of the and probably not next week or next but More or less there is no doubt that this is the biggest immediate meaning of peace to the average Man or woman in the one reaction is All of us Are going to be very Damn impatient about the Speed with which we will be no matter what system of discharges is put into action there will be and no matter How Good the system is there will be recognizing this May make it easier to Bear some of the inevitable snafus that will raise their Heads in the months to we will save a lot of steam if we resist the temptation to belly ache about some of the minor injustices that Are in the cards for and Gripe Only when our beefs Are legitimate enough and Large enough to warrant some attention and getting out of the army also Means return to a Way of civilian Way of that has become strange to some of it int easy to keep from Overl amortizing civilian life when youre in uniform and so some of us Are going to be disappointed when we get the Chance to put on that Blue Serge or Blue nothing could be so wonderful As the Ideal you dream of when you Are stuck on some Pacific Island or abandoned in some obscure Supply command or when you have been engaged in a succession of each one worse than the one it will save a lot of disappointment and bitterness if we can remember that civilian life is not that there Are snafus and that the Mere changing of a uniform for a department store read made is not going to solve problems some of the More excitable of civilian editorialists have been doing a Heap of worrying about our reabsorption into Normal civilian yank thinks a lot of this worry is ground less and it also thinks that one of the biggest jobs we will have veterans is to prove How groundless it we Are not coming Back to the states As a Bunch of problem we have certain rights As veterans and we grave certain responsibilities As we cannot accept the rights without taking the the responsibilities include More than pulling a Blind Down on our War past and living As useful we have been in a War and most of us know what War Means in terms of death and hardship and hunger and one responsibility should be to keep an Eye always open for forces might throw us into another we dont want there Are eventually going to be Over ten million of we will have a hell of a lot of potential we Are going to have to keep continually Alert As to How we use that there Are going to be people who will try to use us for their own there Are go ing to be other people who Are going to try to confuse us so thoroughly that our Power will be dispersed and lets not be lets remember among other this War taught us How costly War can and As pay enough attention not Only to our own government but to the affairs of the rest of the world so that another War May be it May seem silly to worry about faraway places when we will All be so glad to be Home it May seem but a lot of us spent a lot of time in faraway places and a lot of us died in them to end this unless we pay attention to what goes on in the world we May be scattered All Over its fighting these Are the things to remember now that we have the time to think about but the most immediate reaction is still the strongest the War is yank it published weekly by the Enn Stea Njmen of the army and u for Safe Only to in Tow armed pictures mid Ether material from yank May be reproduced if they Are net Reitor acted by Laver military provided proper card it u release dates Are observed and specific prior permission has been granted for each item to be entire contents by Franklin ton Berg and reviewed by military main editorial office 205 East 42d new York editorial staff managing Joe a Art Art Deml assistant 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