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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
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Z3l)e .American Cegion Following the close of every civil conflict, after peace had been assured and the minds of the participants had become tranquilized, the almost universal custom has prevailed amongst the survivors on either side, of forming an association in which the members might be drawn more closely together in the bonds of an intimate and considerate fellowship through which they might also commemorate and memorialize the stirring events of the shared conflict. It is but natural that such a desire should animate the minds and stir the hearts of men. who, after a season of peril in which many of them were miraculously snatched from the jaws of death, many of them become mute witnesses to terrifying and pathetic scenes, all of them standing-ready and willing to make the great sacrifice for Country demanded by honor and duty, should feel drawn irresistibly towards each other, should wish to perpetuate for all eternity the patriotic principles that called them to service, should delight to cement the common ties of unity that bound them so closely as they enlisted in the cause and thereafter served together through times of adversity that tried men’s souls to the utmost. Thus at varying periods in the history of our own Country we have had, in addition to auxiliary associations, the Society of Colonial Wars, the General Society of the War of 1812, Association of Mexican Veterans, Grand Army of the Republic, United Confederate Veterans, United Spanish War Veterans, and now, latest but not least, the American Legion. When the United States of America determined to enter the Great World War, to cast its lot with the Allies who were in a death struggle with their enemies on the battle fields of Europe, four million American boys were quickly recruited for military service, made ready, though not wholly prepared, to take up the gage of battle as it was being waged in foreign lands, and, in the face of unknown, unexpected and to them untried methods of warfare, to fight in the air, on the sea, or in the trenches against an implacable foe, in the righteous cause to which, with the Allies, we ourselves were and always will be irrevocably pledged. PaRe Three
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