OUR FORCES ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 103, 3 May 1941, Page 8

OUR FORCES ABROAD.

At the risk of being called unkind names by those who fight the war in their armchairs, in their gardens and on the tennis field and bowling green, may I say it is time the great majority here realised wc were at war. \\ e cannot expect our leaders to understand the trials our men have been through: it is only our old soldiers who know what their sons have endured in the last few weeks. Talk will not win this war—let us stop building houses and fancy buildings and equip these men who give their lives for their country. The men ho hold our sons' jobs—for keeps now many of them—those on a 40-hour week and overtime, their lelatives and children should wake up and realise that thev too must sacrifice something. Considering our population, a very sr.:a 11 proportion paid their respects 10 our fallen men on Anzac Day. and on Sunday we should have been both proud and a>.iamed of our Home Guard parade —proud of the ."000 men prepared to defend their homes with bare hands if necessary and ashamed of those Mho are prepared ;o sit back once moi e and be protected. Don't forget our soldiers have nothing to gain for ihemselves. and shame to all at home will no: help behind the lines. OI.D DIGGER S WIFE.