Banning High School - San Gorgonian Yearbook (Banning, CA)

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ESSAY OF THE YEAR YOUTH Youth, industrious, courageous, faithful; youth, looking through the problems of today to those more impending problems of the future; youth, involved in the pres: ent bloody struggle to free an iron-shackled world, has not forgotten the lesson taught them by those youths who fought two decades ago. They realize that they have a great job before them. When we send our youth to the battlefield we know that the trust we place in them will not be betrayed. They are facing an adventure which is strange to them. Yet they are filled with a desire to gain from that experience the valuable lesson it offers. And from that lesson and the lessons of the past they will secure the knowledge which will enable them to establish a just and durable peace. They will not be found wanting when they face those great problems of the future. They know from the fateful experience of those who preceded them that their job does not end when they thankfully lay down their weapons. And so they look forward confidently to that enormous and complicated problem of establishing a successful post-war world. And standing strongly behind them is their priceless heritage. They stand firm in the conviction that they are right, and that those rights for which they fight are worth any sacrifice, even that of their own lives. For they know that by giving their lives they may insure freedom from want and fear to millions. Those youths who fought before have not died in vain, for from them our youth today takes up a challenge and from their courage finds its own. So let us place undying faith in these youth, who while they fight are not blind to what lies ahead. These dauntless youth possess the courage and determination which will see them through to a victorious end. Youth marches on! FLORENCE LOCKWOOD.

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