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The Military Mailbag

Greeting Fellows: Just one letter this time. S.F.C. Elmer Wielenga from Redlands. Present address, Korea. He sends us the one and only:   Dear Friends: I have been in the Army a year and four months, so that it is high time I drop a few lines to the Beacon Lights. I have been in […]

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Current Events

San Francisco is the place where “The United Nations Conference on International Organization” is being held. This meeting makes the news today. With Germany in her death throes, delegates of 46 nations of the world, representing four-fifths of the world’s population and nine-tenths of the land area of the world, are met here to erect […]

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Military Mail Bag

“Beacon Lights” received the following letter from one of our servicemen readers.   Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1955 Dear Friends: Well, just a few lines to tell you all hello and to tell you how I’m getting along. I left the States on the 25th of August. By ship it took 12 days to get to […]

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Military Mail Bag

Dear Fellows: This is the month in which we have a day of thanksgiving as a nation. Annually at this time of year the president of our country issues a Thanksgiving Day proclamation, calling upon everyone to give thanks unto the Lord for benefits and mercies received. We understand by this that all men have […]

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Military Mail Bag

Dear Fellows: Here it is! Another month for the Beacon Lights, and there isn’t a letter from you fellows to be placed on its pages. We are hoping that there will be a lot of letters from you fellows, so that the Military Mail Bag will be what it is supposed to be. I hope […]

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Military Mailbag

Hello Fellows: “He that walketh with wise men shall be wise, but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.” Proverbs 13:20 In the book of Proverbs we find the wise sayings of God to guide us in our walk in this life. This text from Proverbs shows how important it is that we choose the […]

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Military Mail Bag

Hello Fellows, Again it is time to bring something for the Military Mail Bag section in the Beacon Lights. We have a letter for you to read and enjoy. May they keep coming in, so that it can be better for me to fill these pages, and bring something interesting for our readers to read. […]

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Military Mailbag

Dear Fellows: Once again we start to write something for your section in Beacon Lights. This time we have a letter to bring to our readers. + + + + +   March 21, 1954 Dear Everett, Just a few lines to let you know that I am now receiving the Beacon Lights and enjoy […]

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Military Mail Bag

Hello Fellows: We come again with another issue of BEACON LIGHTS. Again we do not have any letters from you men. By this time the first issue has reached you wherever you are in the service so you know that Beacon Lights is again being published and that your pages are open for letters from […]

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Military Mail Bag

“Why art thou cast down O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.”        Psalm 43:5 Many times, fellows in the service are disquieted or cast down, by the life they have to walk among […]

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