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Vol. II No. 4 ……. Cover: Mother’s Day is the second Sunday in May, but the photograph on our cover so struck our fancy when it appeared in the Grants Pass, Ore., Daily Courier that we sat down and dashed off a request to Publisher A. E. Voorhies. Publisher Voorhies not only sent us the photograph for the cover, but he also mailed us the picture on page three which ties in with the story we have to relate. The story was told briefly in the February issue of the Marine Recruiter, but merits retelling in order to record details and later developments in the lives of the principles. On Sunday evening, December 21, 1941, Mrs. Lulu J. Griffith of Grants Pass received a telegram from The Commandant of the Marine Corps stating that her son, Sgt. John A. Wright, had been killed in action in the Pacific. Sgt. Wright had been stationed at Salem, Ore., on recruiting duty. On December 9, following the outbreak of the war, he wrote his mother that his Christmas leave had been cancelled and that he might be called to action. The Grants Pass Daily Courier published the story along with our picture on page three under the caption, “First Grants Pass Boy Killed in Present War.” As soon as Sgt. Wright heard the report of his death, he wired his mother that he was very much alive and doing a brisk recruiting business in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. It was a case of wrong identification, the Navy Department wired.