United States Naval Academy - Lucky Bag Yearbook (Annapolis, MD)

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JDrave men to exert le fj ause of liberty f this is not? 59 George Washington, 1775 It was a time of man ' s declaration of his personal liberty as never before. The emotional oratory of Martin Luther King sparked a rush of sit- ins and wade-ins, of Freedom Rides and the dominance of CORE. The nation ' s mood was shaped on a Southern lunch counter and school dis- tricts rocked with disagreement. Americans picketed, paraded, marched on Washington. In the heritage of those who ran a Tea Party, they did it in the name of liberty. It was a time of conflict and disagreement, between labor and manage- ment, Congress and the White House, the States and the Federal Govern- ment. Crippling strikes swept everything from the newspaper to the bagel industry. An Executive stop was put on steel prices and Telstar, ultimate achievement of private enterprise, rode the skies. It was the TFX contro- versy and a Congress embattled. It was investigations, sub-committees and the exposure of Cosa Nostra, Billie Sol Estes and the dangers of cigarette smoking. It was a time of triumph, as our astronauts orbitted the earth, our hearts soaring breathless with them into the mysteries of outer space. It was a time of crisis. The intangible Iron Curtain became a barbed wire tangle, then a great stone wall stretching more than thirty miles through divided Berlin. One Monday night, we learned there were Russian missiles in Cuba. It was a time of despair, confusion, and an increasingly difficult foreign policy. It was a time of violence. Three shots echoed crisply on a Dallas street and the President lay dead, a warrior fallen under fire. A shocked and subdued nation gathered its strength as our new President, drawn, already weary and deeply saddened, searched for the words to ask our help and that of God. So we, who had paraded at the triumphant inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, accompanied him, to the somber, muffled drums of his funeral procession, across the bridge to historic Arlington. The world ' s flags flew sadly at half-staff and candles were kindled, as his Eternal Flame burned, a reminder of man ' s faith in the future and his love of what had died. So we came to a new time, an uncertain one. The future lay before us, the New Frontier behind, and we as a nation, carried on.

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