Letters, Dec. 12, 1960

Homecoming Dependents

Sir:

Regarding the curtailing of military dependents overseas: stop travel of American tourists overseas. The average tourist spends more on the foreign economy during a two-to four-week period overseas than the average service family spends in a year.

(M/SGT) RODNEY N. HOOTS Fort Bragg, N.C.

Sir:

The high gold loss in permitting service men the luxury of the family life they are underpaid to protect diminishes in perspective when viewed alongside the conservative guesstimate of $60 million per month that flows into foreign tills by way of the million and a half American...

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