Barre High School - Barretone Yearbook (Barre, MA)

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BARRET ONE STAFF Editor Assistant Editor Business Manager Ass ' t Business Manager Kenneth Lindsey Paul Salvadore Alice Kirvelevich Karl Witt, Jr. Renee Agar Jean Byram Violet Corso Francis Cranston Charles Cutting Lindo D’Annolfo Shirley Grey Arlene Hov e Doris Newcomb Esther Prada Frances Spasaro Grace Tomasello Mary Valente Florence Weighill

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BARRETONE 1943 THE COURAGE TO FACE IT Over two hundred graduates and fonaer students of Barre High School are now serving their country in all parts of the world. One Barre boy has already made the supreme sacrifice, and another is listed as missing in action. These boys have the courage to face death for those at home; have those at home the courage to face even the facts? There are those who believe that the home front should be padded and pampered to protect it from the shock of reality. Perhaps if profiteering politicians, strikers, blackmarketeers , absentee workers, and plea- sure drivers could see the blood soaked mud and the mangled bodies, or smell the stench of death, to say nothing of seeing grief stricken mothers, wives, and little children, they might not feel so free to pur- sue their selfish interests at the expense of the men who are fighting and dying for them. Anything that can be said here ' cannot, even in a small sense, bring the horror of war home to the civilian. Nevertheless, he should stop long enough to realize that during the last year and a half, the liberty v hich he is now enjoying has cost the lives of over thirty thousand young American men, your neighbors and mine. The soldier has the courage to face the enemy, and the willingness to give his life, if need be, for these at home. Indeed, Greater love hath no man than to lay dov;n his life for his brother. Do you appreciate his sacrifice? Think it over, lest you forget. Kenneth L. Lindsey