The American Legion Magazine [Volume 89, No. 6 (December 1970)]

Cover by Harry Schaare -- The Case for the Supersonic Transport: Here's a Look at the Objections to a U.S. Version of the SST, and the Reasons Why Our Aviation Experts Urgently Want It by Harvey Ardman -- The Songs We've Sung in Wartime: A Sampling of the Songs That Stirred Americans from Revolutionary Days Through WW2 by Louis Sobol -- The Gruesome History of the Natchez Trace: An Account of the Early Years of the Trail That Became a Pathway for Pioneers and a Roadway for Robbers in the Earliest Days of Our Westward Expansion by Peggy Robbins -- How We Got the News of Pearl Harbor: A Radio Reporter Recalls His Broadcasting Scoop from the White House on December 7, 1941 by A. Miles Hughey -- Are You Sure of Your Retirement Pension?: About One Person in Six Who Is Now Working Under a Company or a Union Retirement Pension Plan Will Ever Collect from It by Henry Lee -- Do Women Need an Equal Rights Amendment?: Two Sides of a National Question Pro: Sen. Marlow W. Cook (R-Ky.) Con: Rep. Thomas G. Abernethy (D-Miss.) -- Letters to the Editor -- Dateline Washington -- Veterans Newsletter -- News of the American Legion -- Life in the Outdoors -- Personal -- Legion Shopper -- Parting Shots