Fairfax High School - Fare Fac Sampler Yearbook (Fairfax, VA)

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W AR , like a great dark mist, de- scending on our country, came in all its horror, death and destruc- tion, to us over three years ago. Like a seem- ingly rank injustice, it has taken into its fold the cream of American youth; young men and women upon whom the future of America, representative of freedom and democracy for all, depends. The monster, in all its black glory, has taken its toll of Fairfax Ffigh School graduates. The Alumni in the Armed Forces number close to a thousand and most of the graduates pictured in this book will soon join them. Then too, there are many former students whose education has been interrupted by this war also serving our country. There are quite a few teachers whose careers have been interrupted to give their service in this fight for freedom. This is not a tribute just to the people whose pictures appear on these pages, but to every student and faculty member who are or have been in the armed forces. »

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1945 ‘pAa-ty ' iecUet %6 supply room. However, as one looks back and remembers, it seems that ' the most important event was the dedication of the ' Wvgymnasium on February 4 1 940. Yet everybo A hen the new shop a id girls were added le?ed and the d r Siwfe $ Si. An auditorium and s proud in 1942 for the boys properly ten years lumbers 42. school’s ex- ording to his ich has been structive extra- ool. fore them, they will strive to make a better world of tomorrow, knowing that they have found here those things which give life direction — ideals, principles, knowledge and that they have left this school richer, better, wiser for having entered. No vision could be more magnificent than an institution of learning that moulds the very foundation for the infinite and inalien- able betterment of man. f rffrrrrfrf rn

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Can these mass services and sacrifices be justifiable? The men who are fighting and dying for America ask no justification other than the preserving of their beloved freedoms. Since the birth of our country in 1776, America has stood as a land of opportunity; a land where freedom is dominant and justice insured. Today this kind of life has been threatened and challenged. America has united with the freedom loving nations of the world to meet and destroy this challenge to liberty. Our boys and girls, fighting and dying, are all a part of America. They are fighting to protect the land we love and to uphold the principles upon which she is built. For this we are indeed grateful to Fairfax Fiigh School Alumni and to all men fighting in this war for the American way of life to you we pay our deepest homage and tribute. These pictures represent boys or girls from each of the ten Senior classes and have been picked simply to represent his or her graduating year. ' ( ■