EDITORIAL.

Gun Flash, Issue VI, 6 February 1943, Page 1

EDITORIAL.

■ y,_ in as the soldier thinfra that he is the, only one who is suffering privations'; the only one who is making sacrifices^to win th? : war. Them’? u great deal of talk about the Importance of the morale of the soldier. , '.Quite' true, too -.the morale of the soldier is certainly a thing to bo 'reckoned- with. One of , the best ’ assets to soldierly morale is the .regular' arrival of nail from hone. '. But there is another, side to the picture'; We are not t . the only ones making sacrifices. Those we/' 'have loft/back in Hew Zealand are making sacrifices equally as great - not alu/uj physical ones, but much more exacting ones - mental, anxiety. In tineh'o'f ’ stress those who aro .actually in the difficult position ; .have their minds role!vol by action, but not so those who wait to hear* the resulti, Censorship regulations necessarily bar us from writing \ homo all that we should like, and. consequently there is anxiety on the part of those at homo in our regard. . Their morale is as important as \ our own, and no less important is the bolstering up of that morale. 4

z Wo have it in our , power to help then. Tho way ? Write cheerful ' and regular letters. The knowledge that we are writing rehularly, even though the letters not arrive regularly, will be the greatest factor in helping the home front'. 1 write cheerful letters. 'Vie .all. have our likes and dislikes, our petty grudges, our 1 inconveniences - but /why not . make a virtue of necessity ..It :is war; and, being an unnatural condition for civilised. men, -unnatural' conditions ore a necessary consequence - ■ but why burden others with' our load.? Back hone they look for out letters just as much as we look for theirs. Write often - write cheerfully - and in that way we are doing a Joo towards our hone morale.