Show FOURTH OF or JULY Into a Declaration of or Independence poured the passionate faith of Its creator prayer for Its preservation a a. dedication of poignant words that were to preserve tho rights of or men This was not the tho first Charter barter to represent certain truths the Magna Charts Charta trio the Mayflower Compact wern Intended to promote the principles of or freedom Those were words fords that were significant for the Uio needs of the times Since then we have had many bills of rights Monroe Doc Doc- Doctrine Doc I Doctrine trine Dunbarton Oaks Atlantic Charter as and negotiations The feeling of or America first first bf of proclaiming Its privileges and virtues f Its name lauding Its tradition tradition tradition tion had become popular In public reading of or the tuo Declaration In historical addresses graduation speeches orations by politicians studies In schoolrooms That was when we took out our patrio patrIo- Go to the period from the end endot of ot World War I to the Pearl Harbor horror for out point Recall how blase wo were In regard the national tra tra- traditions traditions traditions past heroes and causes inalienable in inalienable In- In alienable privileges We were not as keen about our Fourth of July as about Italy's road building project Russia's communism Germanys Germany's youth move move- movement movement movement I ment Europe's culture Maybe we poked some fun Sun at folks who used i Ing lag words word about liberty j pioneers as we were busy stream-lining stream autos and joining societies bringing up the subject of the Gettysburg Address at nt I commencements as a matter of course looking upon the western wilderness and covered wagon w gon days as a drop back-drop for fora a movie the Founding Fathers and Plymouth Rock with the and Spanish-American Spanish War vets as a lot lotof lotof of at old stuff stutt We were pushing a Good Neighbor policy and trade agreements Forget the Liberty Bell and concentrate on gyros auto I Then BANG I About December 7 1941 we took ort off those sophisticated masks and became what we really were down underneath not laughing at a mans man's talking o. o pioneering as os a n test of ot Americanism Am but sobering over over the flog flag and a d God for tor the Bless America looking again courage and stamina of ot those forebears forebears' Wo We took our patriotism out of moth mothballs mothballs balls for wo we hadn't seem to need It In i Intervening years between wars as we took our singing of or the Star Spang Spang- Spangled led Banner Danner with feeling proudly pro pro- proclaimed proclaimed claimed our thankfulness In being an American Wo dusted off ot the tho Declaration of ot Independence for tor every day use lifted our eyes reverently to the heavens and thanked God for men like Uke Washington Lincoln and Jefferson who started us us' us along the road to freedom We Wept ept i. i over o the uniforms shouted over vie vic tories tortes prayer over defeats We became AMERICANS again g at home and abroad for the same principles that made 1776 1770 a n historical year That docu docu- document document document ment of ot Jeffersons Jefferson's was as good today as worth fighting for today dying for today as when Its poetry first flowed from the pen i There was Tin an artificiality about that period between wars that boded ill for I all of or us It was not a way of life lIe that had made mado this country fine Must a war I self sacrifice suffering bo be the necessary I I force to awaken us make us cognizant of ot the tho mighty facts that come first to to every decent man love of or his God his I country his home Each of ot us racing facing facing 1 I the land of or the free home of or the brave I Irocky Irocky I rocky coasts fertile prairies cities of or might villages of or quiet are arc making America what she Is never too busy to toi I regard the benefits America offers us I This Is always what the Fourth must must mean a precious possession to be Cherished EVERY DAY II I I |