Belleville Township High School - Bellevinois Yearbook (Belleville, IL)

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S ' - •• : . . and the star-spangled banner, oh long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!”

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5? Lest we forget “Living honestly up to the letter ol the law, lending ourselves sincerely to the services ol our country or any part thereof in anv form in which we can serve effectively makes a democracy more dynamic than other forms ol .government because of the mass good will ol all. Not what we get from our country hut what we give measures our patriotism. So wrote Mr. H. G. Schmidt in the 1941 Bellevinois, the year in which BTHS and the nation faced up to Pearl Harbor and World War II. These words ring true in this year as B IT IS and the nation and the entire lrce world face up to Vietnam ami the continuing struggle with the forces that seek to destroy all the freedoms and values that enlightened men have created for themselves and seek to preserve for mankind. Today we voice the sentiment ol those who wrote in the pages of the 1945 Bellevinois: “We dedicate this page in memory of all those of Belleville Township High School who have paid the supreme price of liberty, that sch x)ls like ours and na¬ tions like ours might endure.

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freshmen at a dance