EDITORIAL
Less than a month remains before
Freedoms Foundation drops the curtain
on 1960‘s Letter Writing Awards Pro
gram. That program, with its theme
“My Vote - Freedom's Privilege," has a
Nov. 1 .deadline; after that you won’t
know until Washington's Birthday, Feb.
22, 1961, how your letter made out.
< Or, maybe you will - this year the
recipients of the top cash awards will
be invited to ride in the presidential
inaugural parade on Jan. 20. They'll
come to Washington no matter where
they are stationed as guests of the
Foundation. Letter writers who get
that early invitation will know they've
made it.
Why this intense Foundation concern
with the men and women of the Armed
Forces? It's because we are symbols
of so much in the American way of life
-from 1776 to the present we have been
a bulwark' against intimidators of lib
erty. In a world blighted by slave
states. Freedoms Foundation reaffirms
the basic, dynamic ideas that are in
compatible with the slave's submissive
state of mind.
It is easy to be glib about loity
abstractions-liberty, justice, human
rights and dignity. Freedoms Foundat-^
ion wants to make them living- concepts
that will provide us with a sense of
purpose-and such a sense, for service
people, is' a; more potent weapon than
any devised on a drawing board..
We owe this non-profit, non-sectar
ian, non-political organization our
support. The best and clearest demon
stration of it is by taking part in
its effort to stimulate blunt thinking
about who we really are as a nation,
how we became that way, how we can im
prove on it. The Foundation’s awards
program is much more than a "contest"
with lucrative prizes for the top dogs.
It’s an invitation to search ourselves
for what motivates us when vie go to
the polls in November. And at no time
in our history has that self-knowledge
been more important. (AFPS)
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WELCOME ABOARD
Wayhe A. LLOYD, SN
Assigned to? Supply Dept.
Received from! Santa Barbara USMRTC
Hometowns Santa Barbara, Calif.
Thomas G. RALEY, SN
Assigned tos Operations, Crash Crew
Received frorns NAS, Alameda, Calif.
Hometowns Water Valley, Miss.
Thomas L. TERRY, CP
Assigned tos-Public Works Dept.
Received frorns USMRTC, Monterey, Calif
Hometown? Castroville, Calif.
Thoma-e C. DEL CARLO, CP
Assigned tos Public Works Dept.
Received frorns USNRTC, Reno, Nevada
Hometowns Virginia City, Nev.
Dale E: HOLLMAN, UTWCN
Assigned-tos Public Works Dept. ’
Received frorns NAVSCON, Pt. Hueneme
Hometown s Nev; Albany, Indiana
Robert M. TATARBM, UT3CM
Assigned tos Public Works Dept.
Received frorns NAVSCON, Pt. Hueneme
Hometowns Lansing, Illinois
Bryan L. MILLER, CM
Assigned tos Public works Dapt.
Received from? MCB-11
Hometowns Port Orchard, Washington
Harry W,' MYERS, S0N3
Assigned tos Public Works Dept,
Received froms RecSta, Philadelphia,
Hometowns Sligo, Penn.
Keith A, DOUGLAS, SN
Assigned tos Security Dept.
Received froms NAS, Seattle, Wash.
Hometowns San Bernardino, Calif.
William R. MARDIS, SA
Assigned tos Admin/Comm. Dept.
Received froms CT, Imperial Beach, Cal
Hometowns Louisville, Ky.
William F. HAM^BRICK, FN
Assigned tos Supply Dept.
Received froms USS HALSEY POWELL DD686
Hometowns Thomasville, Ga"