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About The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1949)
1 MEMORIES! A green HeU on a South Pacific island. The brackish odor of coral blasted from a reef. The stench of enemy dead bloat ing in the tropic sun. A shell-swept hill in North Africa. The staccato rip of a German machine gun sweeping the beach at Anzio. The sudden blast of a hidden mine in Normandy. The biting cold and the panic of Bastogne. The jolting, shin-cracking explosion of a torpedo at sea. A suicide plane crash ing through the deck of a carrier. Shells smashing into steel, with flying fragments tearing open the bowels of men and machines. Battle stations in the grim dawn. Stale air in a submarine, deep in the black waters of a strange sea alive with lurking death and destruction. Holding steady to course while dark, deadly flowers bloom in the sky. The horror of watching a wingman explode into atoms of bone and flesh. Blacking out in a dive. The sear ing, antiseptic cold of 20,000 feet. The flame, fear and thunder of bombardment. Mernories tKdf caYve into ' 'amah's soul. Memories that vake him out of sound sleep, trembling, and dripping with sweat. Forget? It's not easy for the man with wounds that refuse to heal. It's not easy for the man with mental pictures or sounds that refuse to disappear. It's not easy for the man with muscles frozen by nervous tension. The dead are buried. Their pain is ended. Their tired bodies have found peace. But the disabled, the men who embraced age overnight, the men who can never live as God willed the right, still face the uncertain future. These are the men the American people are thinking about when they give their bit to "Honor the dead by helping the living." These are the men who are being helped by patriotic Americans when they accept the V.F.W. Buddy Poppy as an eloquent symbol of their own gratitude. This fear iHe'VeUtanS o? Foreign Wars, iEi organize Hon that has sponsored the sale of Buddy Poppies ever since 1922, is celebrating its Golden Jubilee Anniversary, In observing this 50th Anniversary, the V.F.W. is proud to renew its pledge to the American people that the pro ceeds of this annual sale of Buddy Poppies constitute a sacred fund. As in the past, the contribution you make through the purchase of a Buddy Poppy will be spent strictly or these patriotic purposes: q For the aid, relief and comfort of disabled and needy veterans, their dependents, or their widows and orphans. o o o o o For maintenance cr expansion ef the V.F.W. National Home for widows and orphans of veterans at Eaton Rapids, Michigan. For hospital or individual assistance and entertainment for need veterans and service patients, and their dependents. For rehabilitation, welfare and service work, including liaison service with the Veterans Administration. For necessary expenses for military funerals of deceased veterans. For acquisition, improvement and maintenance of burial plots and the decoration of graves of veterans and servicemen. This page is published with the cooperation of the patriotic individuals and firms listed helow Nite and Day Cafe White's Flower Shop Cass Co. Maytag Co. Nierste Paint Store V.F.W. Club Plattsmouth Creamery Barta Poultry Service Plattsmouth Cafe Cass Drug Rainey's John E. Frady Garage Jack and Elmer's Bar Donat's Tavern Grove Jewelry Bowman's Barber Shop Tastee Shop Stander Implement Co. .Joe's Nu-Way Sharp's Auto Service L. A. Behrends Plattsmouth Hotel Bar The Gas Company Baburek Machine Shop Kent Oil and Cafe Matney Furniture Smith & Lebens Fouchek and Garnett Chriswiser's Studio Norfolk Packing Co. Wilson's Bakery George Conis Ruse Motor Co. Plattsmouth Lumber Co. Armstrong (Formerl Brown Floral Co. Cloidt Service Station Wiysel Auto Service Huebner's Phillips "66" R. V. Bryant Motor Co. Brink's Hatchery Ha.ndy Market Cass Co. Motor Co. Tim's Stites Farm Equip & Truck Co. Joe J. and Freda Stibal VETERAN- & Walters Cafe y Phil's Cafe) O-F Dan Reichstadt Plattsmouth Cleaners Ofe Oil Co. Wimpy's Inn Mutual Finance Paul E. Fauquet Steinkamp Conoco Service Bob's Delivery Service Platfsmouth Motor Parts Co. Solomon's Market C. E. Wescott's Sons Caldwell Funeral Home Vera Lewis Schrei.ner Drug Griffin Taxi Herb Minor Used Cars Lucille Horn Gaines C. E. Ledgway Tom S. Solomon Plattsmouth Journal Shellenbarger Sinclair Service F. G. Fricke Drugs Clyde's Tavern Walt's Market Armstrong Electric Co. Nu-Way Lunch James F. Begley Shea's Cafe Lorenz Meats & Grocery Bauer Heating & Plumbing Standard Oil F. H. Gerbeling T. H. Pollock Ward's Barber Shop Farley Furniture Store Bates Book and Gift Shop Troop-Carter Construction Co. WAR OF THE UNITED STATES SI v I it e K i u 'i e '( r tl h i. r v ii h P i iV h n 01 r y ft 4 ti