Butler High School - Magnet Yearbook (Butler, PA)

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THE SLXIOR 'NI -XC XFT ABL GN and, besldes saylng our fleet from destructnon, we manlged to drxye the rem nant of the enemy fleet away Our beloved leader soon dmed hovyeyer, regardless of the care yyhxch was glyen to his gashed slde HIS dymg words were, stxck to the post, Brother Admxrll, md do not let them gun a but of terrltory After thls we yyon a fevy mlnor XICCOFICS and clptured many yessels, vyhen to our delnght there came oyer the wlre a message yy hxch yyas qurte welcome It yyls from the good old U S A The message read thus Peace IS de cl1red We were so happv at thls news that yye lmmednltely forgot lll our sorrows and turned for home Upon arrnvmg, yye were reeelyed vylth the most flttmg program and a great parade The war had been yyon but the mam thlng that yyas yyon yyas glory Thns yyas true glory yy hleh we oursely es had yyon and not what others hld won for us, for 11 Goldsmith puts nt our grelt est glory conslsts not ln never falllng but m rlsmg ey ery tlme yye fall And as yye lcohed back at the past, we thanked God for saylng our lnves and prayed thlt he would forgrve the sms of those galllnt men who had flllen ln brttle It took much txme to replace all the damages that yyere caused by thlt ter rxble confllct, but, however, when thlngs were stralghtened out, I yyas remem nlmeel U S S Mlrmot Thrs erulser werghed 65 897 tons, 340 feet long, horse power 17 800 speed 23 65 knots, and equlpped w1th 16 ten unch guns The cost was approxlmately S30 000 000 I yyas glyen lelve of absence of two months before talilng ehlrge of thls erulser, so I left for Xlfglflll to VISII my wife Ind ehrld Dorxs wls very glld to see me for If had b en a long trme since we hyd b en together She was qunte proud of her sea captaln and had confidence m hmm, for he accomphshed yyhlt he set out to do And novy wlth the hugh syllry comlng an from the goyernment we yyere lble to furnlsh 1 belutlful home ln Gllviston Hlrbor, yy here yye could be together more frequently We named our boy Chlrley and he yyas to cyrry on the work of hrs father, and yynn more glory, not only for hxmself but for humlnlty and the whole Unlted Stltes of Amerlcl It large Another ph lse of hlstorv wls yyrltten, l1l.lf'I1lI'llIW s Xlk,f0I'l0LlS eonflmet for llberty yy 15 obtained, with glory that rlghtly belonged to those yyho fought and vll hently upheld the prmcnples of our natnve land 1 .' '. ' . . if . 13 , , . I I Q V 7 Y I I y f y Q v. I . f v v y : I K I I D 'Q A ' . . . . t f H :- ' - 1 1 ' 1 1 1 - t ' 1 V1 ' . 'L 1 1 L . I . Y 1 N . A y f- v y It 7 yy . 7 1 y . v I 1 Y A 1 ' - I 'Q if I , s L Q 1. , 1 ' , . r ' rl ' I A I I I A . Il - bered by the government. I was given command of a large government vessel L I . . . l . I I I A X , ' lx ' , g . ' f - t . . , , . ' ' 1 ' . K ' 1 w ' . , 7' ' ', A ' ' I , , ' ' , V . - .. - 1, A 1 - I - K ' , ' ' ' 3 ' Q 'Q h I ' ' 1 Lf L V W Y V1 I 1 3 - J QI - y, . . , ' Y' L Y I t B I- Y V ' , 1 ' . f . ' a 1 ' I 4 4 ' '. 1 1 1 1 ' 1 f 1 V ' 1 , ' ,V 1' 1 ' - 1 ' 1 4 1 r ,. . . ' , ' . ' , 1 , 1, , . , - v

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NXONXIX gnmx xx1tl1 her mother 1nd our hxe months old son xx l1on1 I Ind not IQ xet seen XX hen xxe re1ehed port there xx ere 1 numb r of letters there for me from her She gxxe me great eonsol1t1on 1nd told me to earrx on the xx 1r 1nd xxm lf for her sake After sexer1l xxeelxs of thns rlclxet I xxas transferred to a b1ttlesh1p xxhere I xxltnessed re1l hghtmg Thxs monster eontuned elqht of those huge fourteen lI1LlI puns besxdes 1 erexx of fourteen hundred sulors and oflleers We xxon ITIIIIN xnetorles 1nel xxele defe1ted If no tlme One d1x hoxxexer 1 hre st1rt e t1e shlp e e e n has 1 eertun dt III puttmx, out e blue The preelslon xxnth xx hneh e1el1 mm dld hls t1sk leeounted for the fxet IIIII tl1e hre eould not 25.1111 mx hexdxx xx We p1tehed up the slde xxhleh xx 18 rulned 1nd xxere re1dx to defeat 1nx xessel bL1I'lI1Q the enemx flu, xxhxeh should happen along The xx 1r had noxx been ln progress n1ore th1n txxo xears, and xxxth tl1e addx txon of alrshlps to our battleshlps, xxe seored more NILIOFICS for the Red Wl11te and Blue There xxere hxe urshlps ID our SLILIILIYOII mxself Pll0IlI1g one of tl1em We met 1n enemx fleet one d1x 1nd lmmedlltelx began to drop bombs on them XX sunk elght of the xessels but the slddest p1rt of the story xx IS that xxe xx ere almost eompletelx xxlped out ourselx es Three of our planes xx ere destrox ed bx the enemx 1nd xxe vxere lC'lXlI1g the seene xxhen mx pl1ne gaxe 1 xxolent surge It h1d been hxt by a eannon b1l1 from the enemv Mx partner and I jumped Ve thought xxe xxere doomed, but xxe soon saxx the onlx remammg plane of our f0I'ITllIl011 eommg toxx 1rd us We managed to grab a llne xxhlch xx IS throxxn to us and by thls xxe reached the pl1ne ln SlfCIy We returned to tl1e battle shlp defeated but the goxernment equlpped us xxlth nexx planes 1nd better 1e commodatlons for hghtlng 1nd xxe xx ere detern1 ned to xxm We elreled around our vessel exeh d1x, xx utmg for the 1rr1x1l of 1n enemy IIHIIIW one d1x xe slghted them nn tl1e dnstanee Thex vxere eommg full speed xxnth .1 dnrxglble ID the Center of thenr formatxon We man1ged to enclrcle tl1em and gli ded one of our planes above thexr formatlon The battle was on We sent the d1rxg1ble to 1ts doom first After a four hour battle, we had destroy d sev n teen of the enemy sh1ps, and only four remaxned These last four were hard to doxx n, but we managed to destroy them at last Not one of our sh1ps went down By thls tlme xxe had vxon the mayorlty of the battles 1n the zur, as xxell as on the sea, and I had been revs arded the second hnghest posltxon on board, due to the deaths of sex eral of the higher OHICLYS I fought mx b st, remembermg xx hat Dorls had sand, that I xxas to fight on and xxln for her sa e Several xxeeks later xxe xxere met by a large submarxne belongmg to the enemx We destroyed th1s before much damage could be done to our xessels But xxe had to meet mlsfortune once ln a xxhxle, so, to our dxsadx antage, xxe were encountered bx a fleet of enemx xessels txxlce as bng as our oxxn Exerx body stuck to hrs post and dld hxs best But, alas' Our leader had been sexerelx xxounded, and xxas g xen first a1d I lmmedlately' took command of the crexx , II 'I'lIl': .'I':.'I Ii .I. 1.'I-IT Ffal , ,, V , Y ,,,., Y ,X WY, ,f Y- 495 V V- V, y- V A Vx ' V V .5 VV . . . . e x . V, 5 3 -1 . ' 3 -. V 1 V ' V' 1 V1 V Vxxv . vm V I X V 1' ' V 1 I VA 1-'X x . . 4- ' 1 ' - 1 1' 's , 1x - R, A I K l A I L ' . , - ,.' , V , V ss s -. ' '-1 s V on l - . . In such ll cas-, -x rx' 1.111 . ' . 1 1tx' j thx . I 5 ,-. A V. V Vw 5 - , . I- . - V v- , I 1 s I e V ,V ' V . V V '7 V . - s s -' . V ' - V - , . Vx 1 2 v 1 x 1 'x 'E It - l H 1 ' K y V A- . . K Q K K 1 L l 1 I L U L . 1 VV V s ' s-- V V V V' s V '- ' 1. Vx 'I ' x -- x - 1 1 V Y' ' Yi Vx 1 1 W x x 1 J- x 1 fx- Vx 3 Yi 1 x vu V i i B ' - vl rx 1 'A 1 'E 3 V i Y ' I 'l - '. 1 ' 1 Y Y 1 73 V Y . 4 x L 1 L t . ' - ' ,, V, ' , ' VV V V V, . , V A V' , , , ,, ' s s I Vs s ' s V' I V s I . V -- ' . I ' , , , ' ' '7 Q - , .L V L V Vg ,L 1 , V- I' K . L V VV. 'D I 2 I l .' vu 1 V 7 ' A xl V. V I ' D 5 , , V - K , . , L , . . . . G M S - V V Y - V I VV. ' ' s . y V Q w , ' V 1 K K V Y Y v I . l 2 V Y ' r V 7' ' ' 7 . V Y- Y A I ' y v