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...Third-Class Country...
Sirs: In reference to Mr. Leroy Blodgett's letter [TIME, Dec. 3], in which he accuses the U.S. of being a third-class country with first-class equipment. . . . Tell me, Mr. Blodgett . . . would you act differently after months and years of living under adverse conditions, common only to a war theater, and not to your comfortable home in Burlington...
Sirs: So, Mr. Leroy Blodgett, you will hate to see the faces of those five children of yours when they find out they live in a "third-class country"? [TIME LETTERS, Dec-3]. . . . America is one of the few spots left on earth where you may rear your five youngsters with the relative certainty that they will receive a liberal and democratic education...
Sirs: I would very much like to continue the discussion which I started under your heading of "Third-Class Country?" because I feel it is one of vital concern to the future of this land of ours. I want to make it clear to those people who thought I was criticizing our Army for its behavior that I emphatically was not. I was criticizing us, me, the people who raised the men in the Army and made them what they are. The Army turned out to be the greatest, and I hope the last, fighting force the world has ever...
...have five young children, healthy, handsome, confident that they live in the best and most beautiful part of the finest country in the world. I will hate to see their faces when they discover they are citizens of a third-class country with first-class equipment...