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worth fighting for ~ a flag still symbolic of liberty cherished, bought and paid for by the blood of our sons and brothers, our fathers and grandfathers, @ flag syabolic of America's spirit, What, my dear friends, is the spirit of a nation? Whence is it born? Is it from out fertile fields and broad plains, from mighty sweeping rivers and snow-bosomed mountains, from pulsating, populsus cities and quiet towns and countrysides that the soul of a nation is brought forth? No, the spirit of a nation is far more than her material resources or agricultural and industrial endowments, wonderful and bountiful blessings though they be. The epirit of a nation is something immaterial yet real, seemingly intangible yet something we witness many times each day, something too deep for utterance yet hailing us from every housetop, present in the grasp ane he ui a - vy ths ry r ot ne ofa te shinin from sur mother's eves or a oF a Triend, shinin from cur wotner's syes, * upon us speaking to us from every rose bush and lilac bank, preached to us by the honest faces and virtues of our neighbors, and revealed to us - in every gallant gesture, action and sacrifice of our noble dead. The epirit that ig America ia the will of her people to endure as a powerful yet peace-loving independent nation and to protect and assist in every way possible the oppressed of all lands, to defend the trampled rights of the weak, to champion the cause of democracy in the face of despotic might. The spirit that is America te the intelligence of Americans that enables them clearly and oalmly to envision God among the myriad wirages of modern rationalistic philosophies. The spirit that is America is the heart