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Show Memorial Day VTEMORIAL DAY, tenderest of American holidays, is with us again, remindful of the debt a grateful country owes the men who gave their all for its safety and perpetuity. Amid its preoccupation with economic stress, the Republic pauses to celebrate with piety and pride the deeds of bravery and patriotism performed by its sons on land and sea in the hour of emergency. It does 60 in the reassuring reas-suring confidence that should duty ever call again the breed will not be found to be extinct. Its glory and its traditions survive in the hearts of living Americans, despite the organized orga-nized efforts of those spineless groups hliicli deprecate national defense and are restless in undermining it. This day of remembrance of our heroic dead has more than ordinary significance. The need of the hour is for the stamina that has overthrown every armed enemy of the United States. The situation calls today for no whit less of courage, of perseverance, of the will to conquer than our forces have always displayed when they faced the foe. It is meet to recall the vicissitudes of the founding fathers and to derive inspiration afresh from their fortitude and faith. It was these virtues, as well as valor in battle, that made their cause triumphant. |