DREAM COME TRUE!
Dream Come True! A Gl Tells The Brass Hats What He Really Thinks AMERICAN GI's who have dreamed of telling their brass-hat officers what they think of them applauded last week when one of their...
...Mark took a deep breath and began...
...In the Philippines we destroy food before the eyes of starving people...
...The brass hats in the audience bristled, but Committee members seemed to get a wallop out of Pvt...
...These aristocratic phonies are determined to keep their high rank by putting over a system of compulsory service...
...But the volunteer plan may fail," he went on...
...Marks' testimony, especially when he said that "the-brass hats are in the Army because they don't want to work...
...He asked the Committee if he would be protected from any possible repercussions because of his testimony...
...They say that a voluntary enlistment program is expensive...
...Since when has the Army become economy-minded...
...Ha ! Aint that a joke...
...He was opposed to conscription, he said, because he was sure that voluntary enlistments would meet all needs...
...Appearing before the House Military Affairs Committee to testify against peacetime conscription, Mark noted many high-ranking officers in the audience...
...because the Pentagon Boy Scouts [War Department brass-hats] have been undermining voluntary enlistments...
...Assured that "this is still a free country and we will protect you," Pvt...
...They have practically atomized members of Congress from individual thinking—these bemedaled fourflushers who pass out decorations with one hand and doctor reports on demobilization with the other hand...
...In the Pacific area, we are dumping so-called surplus jeeps into the ocean...
...A Gl Tells The Brass Hats What He Really Thinks AMERICAN GI's who have dreamed of telling their brass-hat officers what they think of them applauded last week when one of their number, Pvt...
...George L. Mark, 37, Cleveland, O., did precisely that...
Vol. 9 • December 1945 • No. 51
