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GLAD
TO BE ALIVE "I'm
thankful to be alive. I was in the hospital for six months last year,
so I guess I'm lucky to be here to help the fight and work in the
yard," says T. E. McGill, Vancouver material yard leadman. McGill,
who lost an arm in a railway accident, is now 60 - knows what war
is all about, for he has had three honorable discharges from the Army.
Besides his own part in the war, .he has a son somewhere in the Mediterranean area from whom he hasn't heard since our army moved into Italy. |
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For our comforts and high Standards of living in the face of Worldwide
devastation and famine. - For the friendly confidence that. we feel, instead of the cold terror that we might have felt, when planes fly overhead. . - And, finally, for being Americans living in a land where we can talk and work and live without fear - where we have a vast opportunity as a nation and as individuals to seek success and happiness by our own enterprise. |
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this Thanksgiving, 1943, America has plenty to be thankful for. - For the fact that the most terrible of wars is one year nearer its end. - For the security that has kept the enemy from American shores. - For the lives .of our friends and loved ones who are fighting in distant lands and on distant oceans. |
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WORLD
WAR I VETERAN "I've
a lot to be, thank thankful for, too. Just the fact that they're not
shooting at us here is enough - but there's plenty more to be thankful
for too," says Aaron R: Lee, O. S. C. painter. Lee has been in
Oregon just five weeks, coming here from Alexandria, Minnesota, where
he was also a painter. He spent 3 months in the trenches during the
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DAUGHTERS "I'm
thankful that I'm able to work and support my daughters," says
Mrs. Stella Leiseth, a Swan Island welder. Mrs. Leiseth has four daughters,
ranging from 8 to 14 years, who came from Minnesota with her five
months ago. Their home is in Vanport. |
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MOTHER Mrs. Curtis
W: Sommer, Swan Island transfer control time checker, is thankful
for the part her son, William, is taking in the war. " We have
a lot to be thankful for,"
she says. "Perhaps the greatest thing is just the fact that we
are Americans."Besides her son, Mrs. Sommer has two sons-in-law in the armed services. |
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SONS IN SERVICE Proud parents are Mr. and Mrs. Jack W. Nagel of O.S.C. Mr. Nagel is a shipfitter leadman. Mrs. Nagel is a shipfitter. Two sons, Edward, 20, and Jack, 18, are serving in the navy; a third son, Walter, 22, is a member of the Coast Guard. Besides his sons, Jack Nagel has 3 brothers also in service overseas. It's easy enough to see what they're thankful for. Few people have had an opportunity to give so much to their country. |
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TOO
MANY THINGS H. C.
Davis, O. S. C. tank test crew leadman, is an old-timer as Oregon
shipbuilders go. He came, to the yard more than two years ago and
worked on the first Liberty."I've plenty to be thankful for," he said. "In fact, so many things I can't count them. I'm thankful that the planes overhead are ours and that I can work. I'm thankful that my grandson is serving his country in the U. S. Navy." |
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GUARD "I'm
thankful that the war is nearing its end," says Swan Island guard
Orval L. Lancaster. "I'm thankful that our ships are being delivered
faster and faster and that I can do my part in an important war job.
Sgt. Clifford Lancaster, a brother, has seen action in Pearl Harbor,
Manila, and Sicily, while another brother, Sgt. Jesse Lancaster, is
now serving his country in North Africa. Orval did guard and police
work in Washington, D. C., and Los Angeles. |
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LIKES
THE WEATHER Mrs. Martin
Jacobson, Vancouver window washer, is grateful that her son, an army,
pilot at Camp Adair, is still in America. "I've done housework
and washed windows all my life, so it is nice to get a check every
Thursday for doing the same thing that I've done for years anyway,"
she says. "Working outside is no bother, as we came west from
North Dakota, where it is really cold. |
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YORKER C.
W. "Happy" Pullen, Swan Island shipfitter, came to the coast.
on a Kaiser train in October 1942. He's thankful for his job - for
the fine friends he has made since coming. West. "Happy"
formerly .worked for a cosmetic company in New York City and is proud
of the fact that he hasn't missed a day's work, since coming to Swan
Island. |
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ABOUT OVER "I
think we can all be thankful that the war seems to be coming to an
end," says George R. Baker, O.S.C. machinist leadman. Baker before
coming to Oregon in April, 1942, worked for the Oregon State Highway
Commission as a machinery repairman. |
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