Loyola University of Los Angeles - Lair Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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ln spite of all that has been said about it- books, stories, and dramatic produc- tions written with it as a background- motion pictures filmed around it, and public buildings and the like commemorating it- too many people have begun to forget the world war so few years past us. And, for- getting it, they have forgotten its dead. Yet we cannot pray for those whom we do not remember. We cannot pray TO those whom we do not remember. And, that we should pray FOR our war dead is scarcely more certain a fact-- lt is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead -than that we should pray TO them- Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends. So it is that both humbly and proudly, and with deepest reverence, the LAIR takes this year of Our Lord l95O as occasion to remem- ber all those who fell in the late war, bring- 'ihg them to mind by means of its special dedication to Loyolans who gave their lives for their country and for their God. lt is easy enough to discover that thirty- seven Loyola men died in World War II, to read the plaques commemorating them, and to recall the relatives or friends whom we number among them. But it is extreme- ly difficult to fully realize the implications of these things. They are too apt to remain mere facts-unless we reflect upon them. Think, then, of Loyola's war dead as your own fellow classmen, think of them, perhaps, as yourselves. Just as you, through the academic year l949-l95O, sat in the Lair 'between classes and pleasantly talked the time away, browsed and stud- ied by turns in the library, or passed lunch hours in the sunshiny breezes of Loyola's campus, just so, in an academic year only a short while earlier, did certaintothers just like you sit in the Lair, stand in the 'li- brary, and pause on this windy hill-top campus awhile, before -moving on to the war and to their deaths. These men were just like us. We are just like them. And just as they died, so could we have died, so may we yet die. We may die just as much in the midst of human plans and ambitions, may we but die as bravely. 5