CAPT S. M. SHELTON
Commanding .Officer
A 0 A K
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FATHERS ALSO
When a boy goes into the service
we are apt to think forst of the los
to the mother, A mother’s tears at the
parting dissolves us all.
But, we should save some of our
sympathy for fathers.
National defense demands that the
young men leave our homes for military
training,
A father has many things to remind
him of the lad who has left home to
serve his country.
When he puts out the garbage, he
reassumes a task his son long,since
had done. He must remember when the
brash collectors are coning and get
those barrels out. The tools on the
bench in the cellar workshop are not
missing and this is indicative that
uhe son is gone. That "rock’n’roll” is
strangely missing, the phone is quiet,
the sidewalk is to be shoveled, the
grass to be cut, the leaves to be
raked, the storm, windows to be put on
and taken down — the father does not
cry, but a thousand things remind him
what it is to be a father, how deep
the loss when a son leaves home, how
r.iany ordinary tilings carry the memory
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I mke no plea for pity for fathers.
But I think ■ we- should see through
their brave pretending and understand
ing that when a father loses his son,
the loss is.,felt down deep*
Should a servicemen . read this, he
well could pen a-special- note to his
dad. once in a. while. The lady of the
house deserves most of the letters,
but the Mboss" should be brought up
to-date, .occasionally*, The enlisted, man'
will never..know, until.he'is a father,#
too, how- valuable a document his
letter can be.
R-rr
'Father Keefe.'.,
EMPLOYMENT OPPCRTUNITIES
C_IVI_L SERVICE EXAMINAT IONS' The' following
Civil Service examinations will be given
during -February at 0830 in the Civilian
Personnel Office in the Port Administrat
ion Buildings ' '•
Clerk, GS2 0 3 on Thursday 10 Feb
Clerk Typist & Stenographer on Wed
nesday, 21 February
Interested persons who do not already
have an SF-57, Application for Federal
Employment, on file in the Personnel Off
ice, bring a completed SF-57 when report
ing for the examination*
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