A family gathers on the porch in front of the service star in the window. Susan Hayward's husband, Richard Arlen, is at Bataan in the Philippines, holding down a foxhole. She, his mother and father, brother and brother-in-law and neighbor lady read a letter from him, about his dead comrade, and the need for them to conserve essential materials, like ribber and steel, so that others needn't die.
It's quite a cast: Jimmy Lydon, Joe Sawyer, Esther Dale, Janet Beecher, and Will Wright are all there in this Pine-Thomas production. Even the Dollar Bills, famous for their ability to make a movie cheap so that it showed a profit no matter what, spent money -- Paramount's money, but even so -- to make this propaganda short.
It may seem odd in our modern, consumer-oriented world, to think of the hardships these people underwent, usually for people they never met. But it does offer a sense of community and, in the end, hope for those who cherish such things.
