Wayne Valley High School - Embers Yearbook (Wayne, NJ)

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Foreword Freedom is a habit and a coat worn some born to wear it some never to know it. Freedom is cheap or again as a garment is so costly men may pay their lives rather than not have it. Freedom is baffling; men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it. What does this mean? Is it a riddle? Yes, it is first of all in the primers of riddles. —Carl Sandburg Freedom has many tongues and uses many voices; the quiet faith expressed in an inspiring sermon on a Sunday morning, armed tank-fire on would-be invaders, the early-morning raising of a flag above a group of young school children. Not just a symbol but an expression of an emotion too deep for symbols, the significance of our freedom is not to be ound in books. The true meaning of that prized treasure is far too frequently understood in its entirety only by those who have strived to earn it. For those of us who have always known freedom, its basis is in the act of being free, the taking part in that which has been handed down to us. Moreover, if is in realization—the realization that we stand before the world as examples of the way of life which we advocate. Let us exemplify and magnify that way of life by daily using our freedoms, and by using them with care and humble thankfulness.