Springfield Senior High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Springfield, OH)

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of 5 ' K Should Eighteen Year-olds Be Drafted? True it was just a routine high school debate. But the J aps were butchering Chinese over an incident. Nazi hordes had erased Poland, swept over France, had subjugated the Low Countries. A tall dark haired lad took the floor. Serious faced boys and girls fiercely argued the question. They looked into the past, they prophesied the future. They raved about Eng- land's imperialism, Germany's ruthless ambitions, America's lethargic foreign policy. It was the right of the American boy and girl to reason, to think, to express himself. But reality, necessity swept over America. Eighteen year olds were drafted. High school debators prepared to fight for Freedom of Speech. They're not boys any longer . . . these kids who used to invade the corner drug store after school. They're men in uniform now. These youngsters who not so long ago shouted in debate to their classmates, Youth must share the responsibility! are in fox holes, a hospital, a distant sky. They are fighting for Freedom of Speech.