for showing you that your taking a stand -a form of identification-has helped my own personal impact of realization. You have proven to be one of the few rocks upon which to rely. I only hope that your statements of principles are as sincere as I take them to be.

Dear sirs:

Mr. P.

Dallas, Texas

I have been collecting issues of ONE Magazine which included the included the wonderful short stories. To recall a few that I have enjoyed and thanked ONE, Inc. over and over again for their publication are: "Substitute,'' and "The Relative Interlude" (December, 1954); "The Summer Summer I Was Twelve," (July, 1955); "Keola," by Harry Otis (October-November, 1956); "The Force" (July, 1959); "Bertha" (February, 1961); the beautiful poem about Joan of Arc, "A Question of Values" (October, 1961); "The Scavengers," (March, 1961).

The above list includes only a few but are the ones which meant much to me. I have left for the last the one short story found between the covers of ONE Magazine that to me is the best I have ever read, bar none. A very wonderful, moving story that could have been about hundreds of us who went into, stayed in, and tried our best to be a part of the U.S. Army"A Beginning" (November, 1961).

This copy I have had clothbound and it stands on a shelf in my bookcase, a very, very thin volume compared to the rest but nonetheless it stands alone with its head high, and every time I see it it reminds me that I must do the same.

Mr. D.

Sunnyvale, California

MILITARY SERVICE AND AFTER

Dear Editors:

Those among the thousands who hold an undesirable discharge from the Armed Forces because of some homosexual involvement should not give up in disgust at the unenlightened military. There are about a dozen national organizations who might help appeal a less-than-honorable discharge.

An official of one of these organizations made this comment to me in private conversation: "Hundreds of of 'homosexual discharges as we call them are issued by the Armed Forces every year. These discharges deprive veterans of government benefits in education, housing, hospitalization, pensions and insurance.

"These benefits, worth thousands of dollars during a lifetime, are abandoned if a veteran doesn't ask to have his discharge reviewed. In addition, there are family, employment and other social complications

that can arise at any time. The process for having a discharge reviewed is simple and completely private. Free legal aid is offered by many organizations throughout the country.'

While Defense Department sources deny this some claim that the best way to get favorable action is to start with to start with a Congressman or Senator. Or the following organizations have all done such work: American Red Cross; American Legion; Veterans of World War II; Catholic War Veterans; Disabled American Veterans; Jewish Welfare Board; NAACP; VFW.

CRITIC'S CORNER

Dear Editor:

Mr. R. Miami, Florida

A young literary friend used to ignore the Magazine. Now he waits for each new issue to appear. So you see your critics will read you, if only to seize an opportunity to tear you apart.

I have some reason to suspect that the Dallas police, or some of them, are particularly zealous in using their authority to give tickets for violations of traffic laws or to hold persons for investigation if they think they are homosexual. It might be called petty harassment. The evidence is insufficient for a generalization. The two main-stay bars in Dallas have lasted through the past seven years, and last week I found the same situation in San Antonio and the same sort of a crowd as four years ago.

Sirs:

Mr. W. Dallas, Texas

For your information, I showed your "bridgebuilder letter" (November, 1962) to some normal-type friends today. Their response was immediate-God! This is sick! How do they hope to gain any public sympathy when they put out slanted stuff like this? To which I add my own amen. The illustrated page especially showed a gross lack or lapse of taste-worse than those sick-sick-sick cartoons.

Please don't send any more of these things to me. You know my feelings about "poor persecuted perverts." The last thing I am going to do is donate money for their aid and comfort that is so long as they keep screaming that God, or Society, or nasty Moms and Dads did it to them and refuse to accept the responsibility for something which is of their own making.

Until such time, please remove my name from your mailing list. There must be something better to waste your 4c upon.

Mr. F.

Sacramento, California