| Show ——— t t IV liVORDS AMERICA LIVES 1P':71"""T"''' '' -- : ''''':' - ' '' t 47'7 ' ' ''' ''1111' ''- - 1414 - 1:17''- t - - '11111 ?' AMIEMcN :: i ' ik"4 - - le t !At t idntitit i r1 '' 4 ow 1 :''Sd44 b q ' ) I R - s- 4p04r tide- Sbitt-- - - - -- t -- - - 0 le 4 : "' : I" 4 S A' j 771-"-'-- r'll s :g rr" body had been torn open by grapeshot and Captain James Lawrence of the USS ChesapeaAe had only 10 minutes to live here were oblivion and the long night coming up out of the shadows to end a brilliant career a fortunate life in which until this moment the future shone brightly ahead What does a man think of at such a moment? James Lawrence had just one thought which he gasped out as he was carried below: "Don't give up the shipl" Then he died His gesture didn't work The ship was given up because the British tars had the bulge that day and USS ChesapeaAe became the prize of IIMS Shannon Yet somehow James Lawrence had won rather than lost As long as Americans admire bravery and patriotism they will remember him Lawrence had been a glamour boy Born in 1781 in Burlington N I he entered the Navy as a midshipman at 16 — young as he was be was older than the United t A 4 44 ll":7:' 1 1 ( ' ' 9"" li if I'llio fl:-r 4 b:att ' C 44' Ar - -01 "' kor 4 i - 7 '4 liad4 - io - 1 1 t -- - ''( 1 ' P- -- 1(-'' — 4 - IV semi -- 0—pt- lA - " 0 it) b k 01r4 States Navy and he was one of the lucky men who made the Navy great Ile was Stephen Decatur's first lieutenant in the Barbary Coast war and when the War of 1812 came along the Navy made him skipper of the sloop of war Hornet in which he went out and captured IIMS Peacock So he was promoted captain and was given the frigate Chesapeake which was where the good-luc- k man met the hard-luc- k ship Chesapeake was a Jonah: one of those ships for which nothing ever quite goes right The British cruiser Shannon laid for her outside Boston harbor and in June of 1813 Lawrence took Chesapeake out for a fight Chesapeake had a green crew and a tradition of bad luck Shannon was the crack frigate of Ills Majesty's Navy and when the fight came on Shannon got Chesapeake in a box raked her and then came alongside to send boarders in to finish things Lawrence down with a mortal wound gave his last order we're licked and we're Don't give up the ship is die and there to nothing we can do about it but going 0 t I) tf k 0 "-7 A -I) It ( 4trA---- t '14-Ink- ' t: T: i' f t i 4 1l 1 ' I A ' ifs p ' 9' i 4 Ili "k1 f)?ilitil ‘ N7) 41' l'""'Ir :1 t ' ' elt:' 314r) 'I t A rr i1 4 Ar oliOn I - del JaJ jilo) ''' ' - -1- LAWRENCE'S DYING PLEA gays our young Navy a slogan His 1 -- : ' N 4 - ) Itl "tac 1 011 4- t'''t At 104k ' 4 !' ?511 U' "1' 444 i? l'''' IV NI - l'4 : 14:- A ' 47-41'- t1 '' t o- 1 6 I (I ( f it d- 4 i4 - - C::::3 1 74177:1A4:41 TTI::: ‘ 1 Ir: Q :k:4 C- ''''' Y - 4 '' 1 Z:''''Pb"""'"'"' Historian ! 1 ros11 V Pulitzer-Prize-Winni- I 'It16‘A 1" lti ' t' i - It l''''''-4e:- ' 't t E t By DRUCI1 CATTON 1 )tati if ' 1 -- -- -- -e -- II 1 4qm11- ' ift--' ' '' '01' 4' L 151 rsltfil)1' the 1 dt''' " t ()1 0 1 ! jt 0 ' iw Pi pi - ' '7 u 1 (:1 1 4 s'114j t' tili11400-$1111T- 47 1:live I11 if t it Ire it 4 i a I e plOalokk kilS 1 Ilk tolt 61 a 1! :-- v r - ' qbs :ii ' C ' a ti&?1- 4 111 riv o I I 0 ff' 1 i v s 1 : iittle'"r"2"1--4:I::: ilk 'ckt t C k 1 1 '''- v:-- etlei:'''' 4 4 ' — ii - rilL di' 11 i b' C i by William A Sob that echoed through history we won't quit Stick to the finish and even if they win — over our dead bodies' It didn't get Lawrence anywhere and it didn't help Chesapeake: but a tradition was born a tradition that and at Pearl paid off in the Battle of Lake Erie harbor the Coral Sea Leyte Gulf— names which James Lawrence never heard of Because of the tradition Lawrence founded America is still a great nation You can win when you lose if you refuse to accept defeat Life becomes a victory if you ambold enough to insist on it and what happens to you personally doesn't make any difference This made America and this will keep America strong if America continues to play it that way they will do it only THE OREGON TRAILS America's Western pioneers summed up their plc crossing of the plains In 11 words: "The cowards never started and the weak died along ths way" Road Bruce Catton's inspiring article In this series March 11 1 2t19St 4 Collor by Wakef Oaado04 7 Fophorssory ThisWeel Umiied Nftdrpespert THIS SUNDAY 420 brxingtod ISAASINE ANI-rit- te New York I 7 N Y Atapgins Cortosetiale tuziod 2 Et LIP M CAVINGTOM Preside-x- i Pkblilher LINK-41m- STIWAIT BACH jowl C Luc-sli- STIIRLINO 8 15 Editor Obaitimm iAt Board 16 e8 20 24 26 28 31 clistraoaan: Last Of The "Dr !tett Rats" What You Wear Tells What You Are Will We Get A Second-Rat- e Tv: Eddie'a The Funniest Brother! 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