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Show FREEDOM'S OPEN DOOH By Harlan Anderson ... What Is this elusive thing e call freedom? Is it not a g from many countries? A the people who settled her brought it to us In their country they couldn t pursue but they brought the idea us It is quite natural for aUliv ing things to seek ee" j Since the beginning or J-man J-man has sought freedom - ' has fought for, has written for , it, has sung for it, has pamtea : for it-and only in our own ' country, AmencadojvJ freedom rfrSi; it frOur freedorn is 't we are is so real, in fact- i when willing to do bat le to n it is threatened. " ' f many f CZ En" and we got things. Ffro" r government and the idea of o f we inherited from all Pe0npeoSur idea of freeze free-ze makings of our tQ dom. Those people America seeing ehat pat-f pat-f "wanteTto use m Sing the government America. . ruled Our country or and by England. It foug land. , Jnn its freedom from e tv vou remember when ein a nut of that would come club and out or Jate Let action but PeJn? benefits we us enumerate the enjoy; let us oe blade of ful for,(ft us in all simplicity grass; let ,u;hat we are privi-thank privi-thank God that magnificent leafddJthHand of the free. Tndav we are facing the most Today w rela. uncertain Petory with one tively short his tog. cQuld S HPus bv an invader. The be demed us by a necessity oi h 2 world 1S throughout the w Another a very real cnalieng fhaltlerf'thaUt we resolve that least, is have died for SreTlomSall not have died in vain. .,We are the Dead. Short days , We livedelt dawn, saw sunset I Loved andwere loved, and now j we lie Tn Flanders fields. i ! Take Fu? our quarrel with the j jTo you from failing hands we xhe torchfbT yours to hold it , If ye brehakhfaith with us who !We shall not sleep, though ! poppies grow I Flanders fields won its freedom take our position in the Throughout history there been threats to ur but we have managed ' tain world leadership-we are not going to let it slip by. The Greerf laTted many ymears?Cbyut thW-re weakened Sv civil war and internal strife and finally were invaded and they were deprived of meir freedom. Our basic challenge today is to keep our freedom areahty by avoiding a situation that would make the fate of Greece the fate of America To make certain that our freedom s pre served, we must guard our na tion against an invasion by an otfier country. To do this I can see many years of wars and near-wars for our country, our whole population, every person, per-son, will have to work as he has never worked before if 'he light of freedom is toj be kept burning bright. To acquire our present freedom free-dom there have been a great many long, hard, bloody contests con-tests and because of this, we can't sit back complacently looking on while all of 'his freedom is pulled through our hands. Our country is a great experiment, exper-iment, an experiment which is an effort to prove that such a voung country can rise up and become a major power over a long period of time forever if possible. Can we keep our position, po-sition, Can we keep our freedom, free-dom, That is 'he question all of the other countries are asking ask-ing now, and it may well pay all of us to ponder the question ourselves. If our freedom were to be taken from us tomorrow, there would be the greatest hue and cry ever raised. We would rush frantically hither and thither in an effort to regain our lost cause. If we were deprived de-prived of our casual way of life, it wouldn't take us long to be- |
