Show THE TilE BRIDGE or OF PEACE rEACE The Valley of Unrest has been spanned by a Bridge of ot Peace The cost has hns been high Too many years too oo many lives and too many tears But such a bridge was a necessity And since It stretches over the rivers of hatred and aggression and since It must be bo cherished by man manfor mantor manfor for tor all time to come let us examine Its construction At eIther cither end are arc the foundations conceived In a sense of profound Justice justlee and right One Ono foundation was laid by America the AmerIca the other by our brave allies alUes Foundations laid for tor a noble cause cause to to establish forever that this bridge shall I I echo with the footsteps of free freo men I unto eternity i After the foundations had been set and the towers of courage were erected there came the job or of Installing the suspension cables These cables were spun pUD I from heartaches and team from tears from tho cries of a boy on a foreign battle battle- battlefield battlefIeld battlefield field from the sobs of ot a loved one lone hold- hold Ing a telegram from the War Depart Depart- Department Department I ment from the anxious prayers of a mother I This sacred Bridge of Peace has hns cable I swings which stream down to Its ltd road road- rORd-j rORd bed These swings are arc woven of flees Sacrifices at homo home and at war Look closely and you will see their texture Tho Sullivans Colin CoUn Kelly I Johnny from rom up the street Richard Bong the Boy who delivered your paper the tho Lexington and the tho Franklin John I Rodger Young Lives and materials built bunt Into the bridge In order that the free may once more walk In Incomplete incomplete complete peace I Now we come como to the great trusses truss trusses s that span the stream They are made ml-de of or orthe the tho sweat of ot the brow of the labors of men m n women and children the children the whole i and tho the crippled and the blind who blind who I I I worked endless hours In order that ours our I fighting men might have weapons and munitions And the trusses are strength strength- strengthened strengthened strengthened I ened by tho the efforts of ot American science I and Industry and the produce of Ameri Amerl- I Cat n and the tho teamwork of ot the tho I 1 cities We walk across this great span upon I a roadway Every grain of sand every tiny pebble every bit of ot this roadways roadway's I substance shall forever remain sacred with the lives of or the themen themen For it la Is' Is paved I Imen men who died that we might live Uve ac according aC aCcording c cording to tho the will wUl of God Hero Here is split spilt spIlt tho blood of young men who answered the country's call with a willing heart From tho the mountains they came From tho plains the drug stores tho farms I I from Industries from the mines from I Ithe the railroads from all walks of of life 1110 Into the flame lame of battle they went their heroic ways They suffered they wept and they died so that free tree freemen I Imen men after them th m might travel this road road- roadway roadway way of peace road road-I This Is 15 the roadway forged at Bataan In Normandy nt At t El EI and AnzIO In the skies of t Germany the Jungles or of the Orient tho dangerous waters of tho Pacific and the Atlantic This Is 18 i tho the sacred Bridge of Peace I This Is the structure Installed over a great grent valley of unhappiness Through i the years men and women of all races and faiths will wUl travel this way And as I they do let them remember the east cost of of this bridge Let them pause here and nd I review Its construction In the light of I I deep consideration I that this bridge May Mayall all remember I Iwas was necessary If men were to be free i i But In their freedom may the Bridge i of ot Peace stand as a monument noble I and sacred to those tho so brave men and women who made It possible I |