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RIBBONS IN U.S. ARMY
(Rec. 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 25. "Too many United States soldiers are ablaze with bits of coloured silk," says ' Stars and Stripes,' the United States Servicemen !s newspaper. " Maybe it is too late to do anything about it, but we would like to petition the War Department to spare us some of this shower of silken recognition.
" A clerk selling razor blades 1,000 miles from the nearest gun might possibly be wearing a good conduct ribbon issued before Pearl Harbour, or European, Asiatic) or American theatre ribbons. Sitting next to him might _be a Tommy who went through Dunkirk, was blitzed in London, torpedoed in the Mediterranean, fought in Greece and Crete, and driven up and down the desert between Alexandria and Tunis for three years, but the Tommy would havo nothing over his sturdy chest and heart except his shirt—and a letter demanding his 1942 income tax immediately."
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Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 3
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155INDISCRIMINATE ISSUE Evening Star, Issue 25005, 26 October 1943, Page 3
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