Lee College - Vindauga Yearbook (Cleveland, TN)

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1! . . . Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You — Ask What You Can Do For Your Country

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Socially Spiritually

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MEMORIAL ADDRESS The United States is a nation that enjoys its polities and takes its political divisions quite seriously, but the one most serious point of this nation is the Republic. At the peak of the Republic is its chief executive — the President. For that reason we all look with respect upon the office and the person who holds that office. The President of the United States is my president; I have a tie with him and am, in part, identified with him — his failings, his successes, his weaknesses, his strengths, his friends, his enemies, his life and his death. It is then natural and proper that we should be saddened by the death of our Chief Executive, that we should identify ourselves with him when he is attacked for no other reason than that he serves us as our President. The attack on and assassination of this man was in this light, For us. One hundred years ago, this past week a great American and President de- livered a classic description of the Republic of the United States — A nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. The President of the United States is my symbol to the world of this nation so conceived and so dedicated. My freedom, I see in Him. This man also dedicated a battlefield as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. This man, Abraham Lincoln, stood for all that he described in the Gettysburg Address. He died at the hands of an assassin; he died only because he was our President and was the symbol of all that is ours — the heritage of Americans. Today John Fitzgerald Kennedy will be buried in Arlington Cemetery. He too was my President. He too was assassinated for no reason but that he stood for me and my liberties. I am identified with him in his death. — R. Hollis Gause