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CLOUDBUSTER
Saturday, December 19, 1942
CLOUDBUSTER
Vol. 1—No. 13 Saturday, Dec. 19, 1942
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sonnel of the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C.
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NEWS STAFF
Editor: Ensign Leonard Eiserer, USNR
Associate Editor: Orville Campbell, Y3c
Contributors: Burgess G. Leonard, Jr., Sp.Bc; David Y. Coverston, Y2c;
Everett Bracken, Y3c; B. F. Fricks, Y3c; Cadets W. E. Smyth, Jr.;
T. B. Howell; E. V. L. Aiello; A. Weintraub.
Christmas 1942
The Christmas season for centuries has meant cheer and hope
for Christendom, in peace and war alike. It has not always been
marked by peace and happiness, for as now, Christmas has often
dawned with war prevailing in many lands bringing- little cause
for happiness.
But confident hope, Christmas always brings. In peacetime it is
hope for a better world, with greater prosperity, a larger measure
of personal happiness, readier opportunities, and a general im
provement in the ways of life encompassed by the phrase “social
progress.” At Christmastime, man often for the only time sees his
neighbor as another human being, and in friendliness, kindness
and charitableness exhibits his highest qualities.
During war the special hope of the Christmas season is for peace,
a victorious peace to be sure, followed by a better world in which to
live, one in which wars are no more and in which man’s inhumani
ties to man are truly supplanted by “peace on earth, good will
toward men.”
While there is no peace this Christmas, and much unhappiness the
world over, there is abundant reason for hope. Christmas 1942 can
mean to all of us just what the first Christmas meant centuries ago
to the troubled peoples then—living hope for a better world to
come. Unlike Dec. 25, 1941, the sun this Christmas will shine on
the American flag being carried forward on every ocean and in
every corner of the globe, advancing in an offensive that can only
have one conclusion, and that final and complete victory.
For most of us Christmas this year will be radically different
from all others past. For most of us this will be our first Christmas
in the Navy, for many it will be the first away from home. While
perhaps the warmth and good cheer of Christmas at home will be
lacking for most of us, and while mistletoe, carols, tinsel, and holly
may seem to lose a bit of their meaning, we should this season real
ize renewed faith in ourselves and in the justice of our cause.
Looking ahead, wall next Christmas find us still at war, or will
we be home again, helping to construct a happier world, where men,
women and children may live in peace and happiness without fear?
The answer to this question rests in good part with the cadets now
training here, and with fellow Americans already fighting and
training to fight all over the globe. —By B. F. Fricks, Y3c
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By Lieut. Eric H. Arendt
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It was just a year ago when our
Commander-in-Chief and Mr. Winston
Churchill met “somewhere in the At
lantic” to discuss the strategy of the
war. You will remember too, that al
though every minute was precious,
both men and their aides attended the
Christmas divine service together.
Symbolic was this occasion. It was
not just “another service.” The con
versations up to, and following this
Christmas service have determined,
and will continue to determine, the
destiny of us all. These two men paid
humble tribute to Christ because they
knew that the very principles for which
their two great nations stand are those
which are definitely built upon the
teachings of Christ.
For many of us this will be our most
“unusual” Christmas. It might be a
little more difficult for some of us to
refrain from becoming a little bit
cynical about “peace on earth, good
will toward men.” But the spirit of
Christmas has survived many critical
times. Once again the challenge is pre
sented. And once again a generation,
our generation, is called upon to meet
this challenge.
It is the logic of events, the urgent
need of the age in which we are living,
that summons all Christian people
everywhere to celebrate Christmas this
year, not only with renewed faith and
dauntless consecration, but with re->
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newed courage and dauntless deter
mination. Every person attached to
this station ought to attend a Christ
mas Service on Christmas Eve. It will
help, more than at any other time, to
supplant cynicism with hope as we
work toward a world where “peace on
earth, good will toward men” is pos
sible.
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A meeting for cadets who wish to
form a Sunday afternoon discussion
group is called for this Sunday at 1630
in Horace Williams Lounge of Graham
Memorial.
Sunday
Divine Services
Catholic
Masses 0615, 1000, 1045
Confessions, Saturday, 1830-
1930
Gerrard Hall
Jewish
1000, Hillel House
General Protestant
1000, Memorial Hall
Born of one war, made fat for another,
Raised to fight for the sins of some
others
Who said that they would—^but failed
when it came
To “make the world safe”—and left it
the same;
The “Lost Generation”—aimless, lost,
As the bridge of change ’twixt worlds
it crossed—
Had little received and little yet lived
To give what it gave, to do what it did.
When the great drums boomed and the
bugles blew
They asked no questions but went and
yet knew
That many would lose, so precious, so
dear,
The lives that were theirs, unlived
years so near.
They’re men to be proud of, who went
to fight
For country and God and what they
thought right.
Though fated los:t, lost, in a world gone
mad
They did what was right, what man’s
future bade.
And songs will be sung and tales will
be told
In days to come of men with faith of old
Who fought and gave rebirth, during
the strife.
To the “dying,” “decadent,” yet loved
way of life.
—By Cadet A. Weintraub
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