Washington High School - Warrior Yearbook (Sioux Falls, SD)

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3,11 Memoriam Sinha QE. Qllunningbam Jfehruarp 10, 1927- - September 15. 1944 Sine Qlmos jfehruarp 2, 1889 - - Slzmuarp 7, 1945 Qfmilp K. Qfbapman June 14, 1879 - f march 31, 1945

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MORNING SNOW One morning when I awoke, I gazed upon one of the most inspirational scenes I have ever witnessed. So beautiful and entrancing it was that I dared not stir lest it depart from me. The snow was falling. Nothing was moving, nothing was living, but the falling, falling snow. Futile man with all his guile and cleverness could nowhere be seeng he dare not be seen, for this was the time of the snow. The world is wicked, plagued with the spreading fungi of war. Peaceful, security-loving nations are being swallowed by the unquenchable thirst for powen But here the heavens with all the patience of the ages were obliterating the crooked paths of man and spreading for him a new and untrodden day. How dare they call it a white and trackless waste ! White and trackless-true, but never a waste! It is our future throwing to us a challenge: Track me clean and straight and I shall be all you could desire me to beg but track me, yet again, crooked and foul, and then truly shall I be a waste. That was the vision that came to me that early morning hour as I lay in my bed, contemplating the snow from my window-just the falling snow in an oppressi.ve silence that was in itself symbolic of the deed that was being done. Somehow the snow became to me the silent tears of a mother seeking to erase the hopeless follies of her mad sons. The slate lies clean before us, waiting to be decorated as we choose. Shall it be covered, as our ancestors defiled their slates before us, with the repetitious errors of time, with strife, with prejudice and hlind adher- ence to foolish causes, or shall we decorate it with a new order of things-a design cleansed of the evils of the past? The choice rests wholly in our handsg the challenge has been thrown. How shall we track the snow today? -Written by john Baillie Davis-1940-seventeen years old. Killed in action in the European Area, May 19, 19-H.

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