SORROW A DETERRENT TO DUTY
A 25-year-old pilot of a heavy bomber received in England from his parents in New York a letter that he thought so-unded “a little as if you had gotten kind of blue about things in general.” So Lieut. James W. Prior sent homja a reply asking them not to mourn him if he died, because * ( sorrow would only deter you from your duty, and then we really w’O'uld have died in vain. “We will have had the bitterest experiences, and by so doing we have lather earned the right to our eternal rest,” he wrote. “Those we leave behind would be doing us the greatest disservice if we though they were mourning our passing. We will have passed on as we wished to, and if, in the end, our fight is successful, we « want you to enjoy to the full the gift we have paid so dearly for you to have.” Lieut. Prior was killed on February 4 in England. He was to have been married on his next leave.—New Y'ork Times.
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Kaikoura Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 57, 24 July 1944, Page 1
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