For his essay describing what Allied victory will mean to a soldier who is fighting for it, Private Isadore Rubin, of Brooklyn, New York, won the Grand Prize of a $500 war bond, in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations “What Victory Means to Me” essay contest, the War Department announced today.
The contest was sponsored by the Information and Education Section of the Mediterranean Theater. Winning essays submitted by service personnel numbering more than 1,800 were selected by a special board of five officers, appointed as judges by the Theater Commander. Entrants in the contest were representative of all arms and services including combat units in front-line positions and supply and service units in remote communications zone localities.
Private Rubin, who is with a Tank Destroyer Battalion operating in the Mediterranean Theater, wrote that “with victory, we stand on the threshold of limitless inventions and comforts. We possess the resources to extend our horizons in every field of endeavor and every aspect of human relations.” He continued, “Ancient and stubborn enemies are still to be conquered…such enemies are poverty, insecurity, prejudice, disunity.”
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