WAR MEMORIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 August 1925, Page 10

WAR MEMORIES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —As one of the first to volunteer on the outbreak of hostilities in the Great War, I take strong exception to your corespondent who desires the war to be remembered. When I look around and «cc the manner in which the Government has treated the majority of re turned soldiers I don't wish to remember. How this patriotic Administration kept its promises more than one unfortunate soldier can testify—pensions washed out for no reason whatever, men placed mi farms at an impossible valuation, and .having eventually to walk off the land, in most cases leaving their back pay and gratuity, also their labour, behind. Hundreds of that same Expeditionary Force are to-day on the roads, with swags on their backs, looking for work, disowned and unhonoured by the country they fought for. The home fires were kept burning for us with a vengeance. What incentive have we to remember the Great War? Your correspondent appeals to the younger genera tion to foster the military spirit, to carry down to posterity the memory of the late gigantic holocaust, to remember the fallen, who, if they could come back und see the way their returned comrades have been treated, would re-echo my words, '"Let us forget, let us forget."— I am, etc., J. H. DIXOX.