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perform Army tasks.  In war, when the chips are down, this morale factor may well be the difference between victory and defeat.

We must remember that soldiers are not mere bodies that can be moved and handled as trucks and guns.  They are individuals who came from civilian life and often return thereto--plan to return thereto.  They are subject to all the emotions, prejudices, ideals, ambitions and inhibitions that encumber our civil population throughout the country.

Soldiers live and work closely together. They are not only on the same drill field but also in the same living and eating quarters.  From the standpoint both of morale and of efficiency it is important in peace and in war that the barracks and the unit areas be so attractive to them that they will devote not only their duty time but reasonable part of their optional time at the post -- that they will not be watching the clock for a chance to get away.

In war it is even more important that they have confidence both in their leaders and in the men that are to fight by their sides.  Effective comradeship in battle calls for a warm and close personal relationship within a unit.

We must remember that in close personal relationships such as exist in an Army unit, that in civilian life voluntary segregation is the normal thing.  And this is true