Mechanicville High School - Halfmoon Yearbook (Mechanicville, NY)

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Halfmoon Yearbook, 1942 5 L ight score and six years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new na- tion, conceived In liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Nov; we are engaged In a great World War, test- ing whether that nation,or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Our boys are met on a great battlefield of that war. Thus, we feel it altogether fitting and proper to dedicate our senior Issue in their hon- or. But, In a larger sense we do not feel we can dedicate or give enough, for this great cause. The world will little note or long remember what we %say here, but they can never forget what they are doing. It Is for us, the youth of the nation, to be dedicated to the unfinished work which they who are fighting have thus so far nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us; that from our honored soldiers we take increased devotion to the cause for which they are giving their last full measure of devo- tion; that we here highly resolve that these men shall not have fought in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and, that a government of the people, for the people, and by the people shall not perish from the earth.

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