Rochester High School - Rochord Yearbook (Rochester, MN)

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TI-IE MEANING CDF AMERICA The events of recent months and years have forced upon us ln Amerlca a revaluatlon of words that are as old as man and yet never reached thelr fullest slgnlflcance untll the land called Amerlca emer gecl from the wllderness One of these words IS freedom Man every where and at all tlmes has sought for llberty of CODSCIODCC and freedom of thought Amerlca was born out of man s eternal quest for freedom, a word used frequently ln these later days but seldom defined You cannot defme It by a slngle word, but It may be descrlbed by con dl lons ln llfe Freedom IS the rlght of man to work lf he wlshes, or not to work lf he pleases It IS hls stroll to hlS home at the end of the day s labor and hls WOYklng ID the yard after sundown or chattlng wlth hls nelgh bor over the back fence It IS the laughter of chlldren ln the park or on the school ground It IS the vlgorous debate and argument over p0lltlCaI ISSUCS ln a local electlon It IS the tralns and busses hummlng over the ralls and hlghwa s, filled wlth Amerlcans who look out upon the landscape wlth faces unclouded by fear he pleased and how much he pleased regardless of what the govern ment Sald It IS Wendell Wllkle Flghtlng lVIr Roosevelt wlth all the Vl or he possesses ln November of 1940, and then leadlng a fight to secure na lonal support for Mr Roosevelt s program a few weeks later I IS men and women a work or pl y It IS the farmer ln Iowa, the fisherman on the coast of Malne, the machlnlst ln shops ln Chlcago, the dalryman ln Wlsconsln, the mlner ln Kentucky the clerk ln the OHICC, the teacher ln the school room, the nurse at the bedslde 'It IS the story of the Pllgrlms, of Paul Revere, of Washlngton at Valley Forge, of Franklln flylng a klte on a stormy nlght, of Llncoln at Gettysburg, of Jefferson wrltlng the Declaratlon of Independence of Edlson and the electrlc lamp It IS all hls and much more 'I IS some hlng a man hlnks, feels and dreams IT IS AMERICA OPHW Cl ' . . Y ' Y .t. . . ,, ,, . . . . . . . . , . v 77 ., . . . YY ,, . . . . . . . ,, ,, . . . . . y ll It is the farmer on the Great Plains stating he would plant what ' 71 ,, . . . . U . .g t' 7 ll ll t ' t a ,Y ,, . . . . . , . . . ' !7 , . . . . . . . y . . ,, ll - t ' 711 ' t ' t ' t ' . YY

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We absorb facts and truths that make up the know ledge and heritage whlch lt IS our duty to know and practnce nn order that we may make our nndnvxdual con trlbutlon to our self government

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