Ligonier Valley High School - Mountaineer Yearbook (Ligonier, PA)

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1 I M OF 1946 AT LIGONIER HIGH SCHOOL LIGONIER, PA. A ,, f 4 4 ,-4' ' ,fs 1 -

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',ggQ--PM ' WE PAY TRIBUTE Nancy Menaher places a wreath on the Armistice Day Memorial to our Honored Dead. lt is with mixed emotions that, humbly and thoughtfully, we turn our thoughts to the hero dead of this conflict, so shortly ended. It seems strange and disturbing to mourn for young men and women who ought to be just beginning life-but instead have lost it. It is an alien reality that is forced upon us and makes us pause to reflect. We remember them with gratitude: grateful that they could under- take the dirty, wearying iob that makes men descend to barbarisms which must be repugnant to them, humble that they did this job so that we would never have to live in the kind of world where such things are the accepted order. We remember them with pride: pride in the way they measured up to the pressing need, pride in their decency, kindness, iustice, and Christianity, pride in their laughter, their dreams, their faith, and their patience, pride in the example which they set for the world. And yet, we remember them also with fear: a fear that what they have done may prove fruitless, and that the whole bitter struggle must be endured again-and again, fear that we have not lived up to our obligations to make secure what they sought. And in our apprehensions, we increase our resolve that, with God's aid, we will make fast the ideals for which their blood was shed and through His enduring mercy shall choose the path which will lead to eternal peace and iustice for all men. Mountaineer -A 4