The Bluffton news. [volume], October 08, 1942, Image 8

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‘‘Tell ’em we didn’t run out of courage here on Corregidor. It was
the bullets and food and quinine and sulfa drugs that gave out. When
the Japs finally swarmed in, 20-to-l, the boys kept right on fighting,
with their hands and with rocks and with clubs weak with dysen
tery... wild with the delirium of malaria.
“Tell the folks we know they’re coming back to Bataan to get us
out of here. But, tell ’em please, to come with plenty of planes and
guns and ships and tanks. Tell ’em we’ll wait. .. we’ll take it. the
rotten food, the filth, the misery, the clubbings, the heartbreak.
“Tell ’em to buy those War Bonds and buy all they can. We
Want to see the China sea filled with our destroyers and the sky here
black with our planes. And we want to see a Garand rifle in the hands
[of every boy on the transports.
“We’ll hang on the fifteen thousand of us here in Hell.
jWe’ll hang on while the folks buy those War Bonds. Every American
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THURSDAY, OCT. 8, 1942
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Lend Uncle Sam at least
10c out of every dollar
you earn for the next year
Buy War Bonds the easy way
Each Pay Day on the
fPAY ROLL
^Allotment Plan
Contract for this location relinquished by courtesy of City Markets.
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