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VOLUME II, Number 44 /12 November 1962
VETERANS DAY 1962 - it’s always a solemn event. This year it's more so
because we’ve faced the worst national crisis since Korea and have not
been found wanting. Never have we been more united as Americans, never
has a President’s bold, sure action to meet a military threat had greater
popular support.
It’s not over, of course. Far from it. Cuba even without Soviet mis
siles will be an ugly problem as long as Castro and his crew are around*
The issues in Berlin remain unsolved. Agreements on a nuclear tost ban
and the larger problem of controlled disarmament have not been reached.
In other words, it’s no time for hosannas.
And yet a feeling is widespread that the President- s resolute sta.^a on.
Cuba and Mr. Khrushchev's sensible backdown may have marked a turning poi
nt in the cold war. Had the Soviets persisted in their intransigence, who
knows what the state of the world would be on this November 11? It is ter
rible to contemplate even now that reason has prevailed.
As members of the Armed Forces, let's be proud that American military
might and the President's grim determination to use it if necessary was
the decisive factor., We are that might — each and every one of us. In
the eyes of the world we have proved ourselves not in war but as a deter
rent to war. We are keepers of the peace,,
Yes, perils lie ahead. We can expect ether tests of American grit and
fortitude* But the heartening fact that the Cuban issue has passed into
the authority of the United Nations; the demonstration of solidarity by
our NATO allies and the Organization of the American States — these are
grounds for hope. And hope is the spirit that predominates this Veterans
Day*
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