Comanche High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Comanche, TX)

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Dedication. .. Who Cares? The 1968 Arrowhead is dedicated to a group of young men who risktheir lives every day in a small Asian country, fighting an undeclared war so that people they don't know can be free. Many of these young men, and I say men for they ceased to be boys when they loaded their guns and knew it was for real,', did not choose to go to that small Asian country. Who could blame them? When living is reduced to sur- vival alone, who has time for thoughts of patriotism and duty? When they march through muddy rice paddies and huddle in a drizzling rain, waiting to move out and engage the enemy, do they think of liberty? Do they think of freedom when every step they take could detonate a mine? Probably they are thinking about things back home and wondering if they will see home again, perhaps they are thinking about the next leave they will get and how they will spend it. They may some- times wonder if people even care that they are there. Of course their fami- lies care, but do we care? Yes, we mouth sugar-coated platitudes about freedom, democracy, and patriotism, but we do not realize that some may never come back. Many will return with battle scars, others with emotional scars which only the passage of time can heal. They are there, and we are here- - safe, secure, and apathetic. Let us remember that because they are there, we can continue to be safe, secure, . . and apathetic, The next time you hear the statistics of casualities and fatali- ties in Viet Nam, try to care. The dedi- cation is not meant to be mawkishly sentimental or melodramatic. It is meant to show appreciation of our own fighting men. To those, the Comanche County serv- icemen in Viet Nam, we care, and dedicate the 1968 Arrowhead to you.

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