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Show dress you on the subject of America's Future. I am not speaking of America's Amer-ica's Future as seen from the eyes of a statesman, nor as a soldier, but as an average, typical typ-ical American girl. The future that I am interested inter-ested in is that future which holds those things of which any true American wife or mother is interested. The future of which I speak must be one in which we, as average Americans, can be allowed al-lowed to pursue that life which God intended we should. A life not filled with poverty, starvation, starva-tion, cruelty, hatred, bigotry, but a life in which all mankind shall have equal opportunities for an employment, adequate housing, and the pursuit of a normal, happy life. The future in which I am interested in-terested is a future which sees Americans assuring for all "its citizens and the citizens of all other countries, the right to happiness. hap-piness. I A future whicli assures all men and women the right to marry and raise families, not as cannon 'fodder to prove some ideology, but the right to raise those families, and educate them, to assure their place in building a greater future. AMERICA'S FUTURE By LaRue Atkin Fellow students, members ol the faculty, judges, and members mem-bers of the American Legion I consider it a great honor to ad- |