ROTC Training Center - Sand Yearbook (Camp Custer, MI)

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Keep Faith f'Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch-be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die, XVe shall not sleep, though poppies grow ln Flanders' fields. The great privilege of going Overseas was denied us. To others was given the glorious opportunity to grapple with the forces of llvil, to others was granted the right to battle for the sacred principles to which we dedicated our minds, our bodies, and our souls. It was not ours to traverse shell plowed fields, to brave the perils of combat in the cruel light of star shell, amid the peltinug hail of shrapnel. Nor was it vouchsafed us to fall on gory field, our only dirge the roar of artillery and the shriek of projectileg not ours to lie beneath the lilies with the heroic dead long' after the kindly years have healed the scars of today. H All this was for those who went before us. lt was their appointed work and they did it well. XVe revere our warrior kindred who rest beneath the sward in Flanders Field. VVe glory in their deeds and hallow their memory. As long as man shall live, the epic of the Marne, Verdun, and the Argonne will inspire the quill of poet and the brush of painter. To sing their praise were not enough. A greater task awaits us. We must carry on. Not in the tumult and carnage of battle as did our brave brothers, but in the furrowed fields and busy marts of a land blessed by peace. Ours to hold aloft the brand which fell fromtheir dying graspg we must keep aglow the altar Fires of Freedom and Democracyg we must guard well that heritage rendered thrice sacred by the blood ransom paid on Flanders Field. A solemn trust, a stern obligation ours, to keep the faith with those who wrote in their own blood the most glorious anthem in the llsalter of Humanity. 46

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