Salute to Heroes

From Movieland magazine in 1943:

As you read this, our country will have been at war approximately two years and five months. To no community in our great land, has the war wrought more changes than to Hollywood. To the fight for freedom, Hollywood has given out not only its manpower and its money but its time, its talents, it dreams. The men are in uniform, but the girls have gone to battle in their own way, on bond tours in this country, over the air on Command Performance, out in the mud of the South Pacific, the fiery deserts of North Africa, the snows of Alaska on entertainment tours.

Movieland herewith honors the male stars in uniforms, not because they are braver than the millions of lesser know men in uniform, nor because they have given up more glittering lives. Movieland honors them because we do not want you to forget them. It’s because there’s this about an actor: great as his talent may be, it cannot exist without a public to appreciate it. So here’s to them, heroes all, and certainly the handsomest bunch of fighting men the world has ever seen.

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I love that they included Carole Lombard.

Happy Veterans Day to those who have served. And thank you.