| Show W. Bennett spiritual side of freedom in stirring talk at Veterans Day dinner Sixty-one members of the Basin Post and Auxiliary along with guests joined in honoring Veteran's Day at the annual dinner-meeting Saturday night at the where they heard a stirring and challenging address from Senator Wallace F. PRESIDING at the meeting was Kenneth post who Introduced his official family of both Legionnaires and and reviewed the purpose of the annual Veteran's Day dinner and He also introduced Excerpts from Senator Bennett's address follow and Ills subject was and Freedom Are we honor those Americans who or gave lives in the cause of So it is appropriate that we ourselves to that same great wc can do we must first answer for ourselves the What is freedom and what is its Is it a political power that government can Or is as the Declaration of Independence a spiritual force with which each and every person has been endowed by their freedom more ac liberty is a personal individual force that must exist in the hearts and lives of men before it can become a legal or political value In the life of a Nations cannot create they can only weaken it by guile or destroy it by Today we see the effects of both evil processes in the and must keep ourselves strong enough to meet both celebrate this November because it marks the anniversary of our victory over the first attempt in our national history to use force to destroy the freedom of the whole Because our freedom as Americans was not di- POST COMMANDER Kenneth commander of Basin Post presided over Inspiring Veteran's Day dinner meeting Saturday evening which featured an address on Americanism by Wallace F. we fought more for principle than for selfish and the right Twice we have responded unselfishly to the needs of other freedom-loving Now the terrible threat is aimed directly at and wc must be strong enough to meet it I believe we to the greatest threat and danger is not To remain a free nation we must fight to remain free Here the risk is greater because the risks and pitfalls are difficult to discover and The greatest of them may actually seem to be attractive and The I secret of said Pericles the is And since liberty is its price is personal responsibility the capacity to make our own decisions and accept the too many of us are looking for easy ways to escape responsibility by loading it on hoping to trade freedom for Whenever we surrender personal we weaken our ability to defend political both that of other nations and our we speak of to the cause of it is fitting that we recall our military sacrifices and celebrate our victories in But if our devotion is to be it must be based on the determination to Increase our spiritual capacity for for and for As a religious people we should face the final challenge of the Apostle Paul writing to the the Spirit of the Lord there is Corinthians Emcee for the program was second-vice and Senator Bennett was Introduced by Kenneth R. Roosevelt Two vocal solos were sung by Don accompanied by Jay |
