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Letter from L. H. Bowles to President Harry S. Truman
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Letter from L. H. Bowles to President Harry S. Truman
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P.P.F. 200 beong
Sacramento, Calif.
Oct. 25, 1945
con
Hon. Harry S. Truman
Rg
President of the United States
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. President:
Please accept the protest of
an American family in regard to Com-
pulsory Military Training during
Peace time.
You surely must know our nation
is already five years behind other
large nations with college-trained
youths.
This is the time for us to take
the leadership in the world for proving
Democracy by giving back to the youth
of America the choice of his life work.
You must realize taking a youth
away for a year or more right from high-
school makes him take the attitude during
high-school that 'there's no use con-
centrating on a vocation now if I have
to drop it for a year- or more'.
I have seen this attitude now
for five years and please Mr. President
let's not continue this.
Future America is dependent upon
the outcome of this drastically Unamerican
legislation.
Believing in true democracy,
Mrs. L. H. Bowles
2974-32nd St.,