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P.P.F. Mrs. V.M. Kelly 3 32 Hamlin are. Hume can East aurora, n.y. K Dec 4, 1950 Harry S. Truman TRUMA HARRY "NATIONAL ARCHIVES RECORDS Wash. D.C. U.S. U SERVICE GOVERNY Dear mr. President, l feel sorry for you and ashamed to think that you above all people, would display such bad daughter taste about the criticism directed at your What would you do mr. President if you had a son in Korea? In the marines, by the way-that you spoke so disparagingly of remember ? in that nice tight little trap - that they have been trying so desperately President to get free of- What would do mr. ? your apology was also a poor you chaice of words," if indicated you should have used more suitable It words but with exactly the same meaning must be a bilter pill for those poor hids- to Commander be where they are- knowing you are their in Cheif a bilter pill indeed. marines! my only child and its a bilter pill mr. President I am the mather of one of those