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i Memories that carve into a man’s soul. Memories _ This year the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the organiza
5 that wake him out of sound sleep, trembling, and tion that has sponsored the sale of Buddy Poppies ever
ja EMORIES! A green hell on a Sonth Pacific dripping with sweat. since 1922, is celebrating its Golden Jubilee Anniversary.
= island. The brackish odor of coral blasted Forget? It's not easy for the man with wounds In observing this 50th Anniversary, the V.F.W. is proud
from a reef. The stench of enemy dead bloat- that refuse to heal. It's not easy for the man with 2 wg a Yo the American people that the pro-
ing in the tropic sun. A shell-swept hill in North mental pictures or sounds that refuse to disappear. ea eS iby a oof yi 2 ies Pogue a
a Africa. The staccato rip of a German machine gun It's not easy for the man with muscles frozen by through the purchase A Buddy Poppy wl be a
sy sweeping the beach at Anzio. The sudden blast nervous tension. strictly for these patriotic purposes:
pu of a hidden mine in Normandy. The biting cold and
hi the panic of Bastogne. The jolting, shin-cracking The dead are buried. Their pain is ended. Their @ For the aid, relief and comfort of disabled and needy veterans, their
los explosion of a torpedo atsea. A suicide plane crash- tired bodies have found peace. dependents, or their widows and orphans.
Fis ing through the deck of a carrier. Shells smashing : :
wi into steel, with flying fragments tearing open the But the disabled, the men who embraced age ® i maintenance or expansion of the V.EW. National Home for
we bowels of men and machines. Battle stations in the overnight, the men who can never live as God willed widows and orphans of veterans at Eaton Rapids, Michigan.
he} grim dawn. Stale air in a submarine, deep in the the right, still face the uncertain future. @ For hosp'tal or individual assistance and entertainment for needy
i black waters of a strange sea alive with lurking These are the men the American people are veterans and service patients, und their dependents.
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in while dark, deadly flowers bloom in the sky. The the dead by helping the living. hi with the Veterans A i
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& horror of watching a wingman explode into atoms These are the me who are being helped by Ma winery total ot
tor of bone and flesh. Blacking out in a dive. The sear- patriotic Americans when they accept the V.F.W. ceisary expenses tor military funerals of deceased veterans.
Hy ing, antiseptic cold of 20,000 feet. The flame, fear Buddy Poppy as an eloquent symbol of their own @ For acquisition, improvement and maintenance of buricl plots and
] oy and thunder of bombardment. gratitude. the decoration of graves of veterans and servicemen.
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Eb SHATTO'S LEHMAN & BOOK KITTY DRESS SHOPPE KRALL'S MEAT MARKET HERSHEY'S 5¢ & 10c STORE
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a EICHERLY'S C. W. HERR BORTZFIELD'S STORE CAL'S ATLANTIC SERVICE H. S. NEWCOMER & SON, Inc.
= THE BULLETIN J. M. BOOTH BENNETT'S RESTAURANT ADAM H. GREER, Jeweler NEWCOMER'S SERVICE STATION
Je; HESS" STORE LESTER E. ROBERTS MUELLER'S FLOWERS MARTIN'S 5¢ & 10c STORE UNION NATIONAL MT. JOY BANK
ESHLEMAN BROS. TYNDALL'S STORE MT. JOY DEPT.. STORE KEENER HOME FURNISHINGS W. D. ZERPHEY'S SERVICE STATION
i FIRST NATIONAL BANK & TRUST CO. KULP'S NEWS AGENCY & LUNCHEONETTE
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MOUNT JOY POST NO. 3732
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS
OF THE UNITED STATES