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+O SS EERE TU Ree MWY OOCBIARUAWNHS PO INUAWHE O ~ Fr $e ‘You Legiomeires know what duty means and believe me, when you are fig! pigad for leyalties to the mation there are wo Fifth Amendments behind ch you can hide. (Applause.) Met ene of you would dare retreat from a trench, go beck and shelter yourvelf under the Fifth Amcntueat. ne I do not “petieve, really, that eur mation has quite realized the tremen- Gous service that you are doing with your keart, actually, the beart of the American nation. Perhaps yeu have net been conscious ef it. That is @&xcusable; men de great things without always being censcious. , Remember when Our Blessed Lord was going eut to His death, the long arm of the Roman law reached out and laid its hands wpon a stranger by the name of Simeon, whe came from Cyrene, and said to him, “Help Him carry His Cress." He did mot 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 gfross 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 eut 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 Inman 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 nobler cress than we kmow. You have been carrying a nobler cross than even we deserve. God love you!