Over 61 Years Ago
This is what Life was publishing in their magazine on July 7, 1941 and selling for 10-cents per copy and at a yearly subscription of $4.50. I found this magazine in my Grandmother's treasures that she packed away in an old, rounded, steamer trunk.
Not For Sale! BUT ... What value do you put on this over 60-year Defense Issue of Life? I have found a value anywhere from $15 to $50 for mint, unread editions. How do you know they are UN-Read?
The front cover of this USA Defense Issue depicts General George Smith Patton Jr. Because of his snappy helmet and costumes, and because he likes to ride a tank with his troops, Major General George S. Patton Jr., commanding general of the Second Armored Division, is sometimes called General "Flash Gordon" or the "Green Hornet."
For his own special tank he has a special color scheme. Red, white and blue stripes stand for the three tank regiments in his division, while the yellow stripe symbolizes the Armored Force's origin in the cavalry.
If you were to turn to pages in this 7 July 1941 Defense Issue to pages 72-89, you could read a story on General Patton's troops, plus troops of the First Armored Division.
If Dorothy "Dottie" Lamour interests you, then pages 34-37 would curb that particular interest. Those pages show various pictures of Miss Lamour as the No. 1 Pin-up Girl of the US Army.
On page 90-96 you can read our transcribed version of Listen To The People, a dramatic poem, written by Stephen Vincent Benet that was presented over the National Broadcasting Company's Blue Network at 4:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time, Friday, July 4, 1941.
Does this section of Stephen Vincent Benet's July 4, 1941 poem fit what is going on in the world today? Is the world going in a circle of LIFE? The world is round... you know! *smiling* Just wanted to share this with you! We all have our own wars, don't we!
It's a long way out of the past and a long way forward. It's a tough way, too, and there's plenty of trouble in it. It's a black storm crowding the sky and a cold wind blowing, Blowing upon us all. See it and face it. That's the way it is. That's the way it'll be for a time. Even the easy may have little ease. Even the meek may suffer in their meekness. But we've ridden out storms before and we'll ride out this one, Ride it out and get through. It won't be done by the greedy and the go-easies. It'll be done by the river of the people, The mountain of the people, the great plain - Grown to the wheat of the people. It'll be done by the proud walker, Democracy, The walker in proud shoes. Get on your feet, Americans, and say it! Forget your grievances, wherever you are, The little yesterday's hates and the last year's discord. This is your land, this is your independence. This is the people's cause, the people's might. Say it and speak it loud, United, free...."
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