2-#414, Twenty-first from Rome               
 
                                                            
 
 
on your radio or in your street or perhaps it is the favorite hymn   
in hte old church at home.  Of course, it carries with it a longing   
to be at home.  There is no discrdit in that, all of us would like   
to be at home.  Out in the vast spaces in which our boys and girls   
who are engages in this work that is a duty and their service to   
their country and to you're exchanging little gifts and all have   
something to give the little boys and girls in these unaccustomed   
surroundings.. These things are symbolical of Christmas at home.    
       They warm the heart they sooth the heartache.        
 
                                                            
 
 
These boys and girls of ours and al the older ones become like boys   
and girls today, little boys grown up are alive with sentiment.  It   
is hard to thinf our men are thousands of miles from home engaged in   
the business of killing men.  That is an unnatural thing yet it   
becomes a solemn duty when false leadership endangers the peace of   
         the world. War is indeed a grim business.          
 
                                                            
 
 
The war came into this Itlay which we older ones used to think of as   
the lighter more buoyant representation of life, the great operas and   
symphonies, the great works of art of romance and adventure.
 
                       The war in all