Notre Dame Cathedral Latin School - Yearbook (Chardon, OH)

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Have they died in vain? . . . GUR high school days have been overshadowed since our fresh- man year by the tragic horror of world war. Through the dark days of Bataan and the Ardennes break-through we watched boys we all knew-our brothers and the boys with whom we skated and danced and chummed through school-leave home, security and sometimes life itself to preserve and protect our American way of life and the Four Freedoms on which this way of life is based. To us, Notre Dame has come to mean a symbol of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. Still, while we watched the casualty lists lengthen each passing day, we found ourselves asking, ls it really worth it? Viewed objectively, blood for bricks would never be a fair exchange. As we retell Notre Dames story in the pages that follow, we feel that the true worth of our school will speak for itself. For we, too, were given a job to do-that of preparing ourselves with a sound, Catholic education for the days which lie ahead, since it was for this same educational system that our brothers marched away, leaving their kid sisters behind with the tacit agreement that someday, some- how, together we would fashion a world founded on the principles of our greatest teacher, the Divine Master, Jesus Christ.