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“¢ "a WbW NH SOS INU AWNMH SO PMD INNA WHP O& DODINURUNH OY @ ~ You Legiomeires know what duty weans und believe me, when you sre os can hide. (Applause.) Met one of you would dare retreat from a » go back end shelter yourself under the Fifth Amendwent. .. -— - ie ting for leyalties to the mation there are mo Fifth Amendments behind I do not “believe, really, that eur nation has quite realized the tremen- -deus service that you are doing with your keart, actually, the heart of the American nation. Perhaps yeu have net been censcious ef it. That is @xcusable; men de great things without always being censcious. ; Remember when Our Blessed Lord was going out to His death, the long arm of the Roman law reached out and laid its hands upon a stranger by the name of Simeon, whe came frem Cyrene, and said to him, "Help Him carry His Cross." He did not want te do it. He was just a bystander, watching someone go to his death. But he did it. Following in the footsteps he began te love the fross and the Que whe was carrying it. : And se I think members of The American Legion, all ef you, are playing under — Providence some such role as that; when our world is carrying a great and tremendous cross —- 42 out of every 100 being subjugated by Commmnisa, youth being cut down by the sickle and the aged being beaten with the hammer of totali- tarianism — you are asked — you have not asked for it but you have been told by Providence, "Help them carry the cross. Reach out against these systems that would d destroy the value ef Inoean personality." You did net want te do it. No man wants to be ready te die fer these things; but you did it and your burdens became sweet. But, gentlemen, I tell you that you have been carrying—all ef us—a mobler cress than we know. You have been carrying «8 nobler cress than even we deserve, Ged love you! RR re eR gr Nine Sm er re ee eee tare