Texas Military Institute - Crusader Blue Bonnet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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TEXAS MILITARY INSTITUTE. SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. IN BLUEBONNET TIME

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 fHIS, the fifth edition of the “Blue Bonnet”, the students' annua! of Texas Military Institute, is dedicated to the American Legion, in acknowledgment of the debt of gratitude which our generation, in common with countless others yet unborn, owes to the gallant men who in 1917 and 1918 saved democracy for the world. Our fellow citizen, Mr. Nat M. Washer, in his eloquent tribute which follows, brings to us the inspiration to better citizenship that springs from the activities of this great association of the veterans of the greatest of all wars. Mr. Washer, himself an honored veteran of that great Service-at-Home, which united the whole American people in spirit and in effort as never before they have been united in our history,—sets vividly before us the high and patriotic purposes of the American Legion. Next October the survivors of that eternally memorable Crusade of Freedom will meet in annual convention in San Antonio. Behind the fun and the frolic of what is to most of these men an annual vacation, may we people of San Antonio see the high spirit and dauntless courage that carried them through the filth and misery, the perils and horrors of a roaring inferno, the worst this world has ever known; and may we then and always give them the honor and show them the courtesy which their outstanding service so richly merits. —JOHN C. CARRINGTON. mnr. i z Page Tu'o