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towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies o f foreign
Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and
tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelly and per
fidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally
unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow-Citizens, taken captive on the
high Seas, to bear Arms against their Country, to become the
executioners or their friends and Brethren, or to fall them
selves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has
endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, tfie
merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an
undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for
Redress in the most humble terms; Our repeated Petitions
have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose
character is thus marked by every act which may define a
Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our Britain
brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts
by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction
over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our
emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their
native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them
by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpa
tions, which inevitably interrupt our connections and corre
spondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice
and of consanguinity,. We must, therefore, acqulese in the
necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as
we hold the rest of mankind ? Enemies in War, in Peace
Friends. v
We, Therefore, the Representatives of the United States of
America, in General Congress Assembled, appealing to the Su
preme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions,
do, in the Name and by authority of the good People of these
Colonies, gslemnly publish and declare, That these United
Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, free and independent
States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the Brit
ish Crown, and that all political connection between them and
the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved;
and that as Free Independent States, they have full Power
4o levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish
Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Inde
pendent States may of right do. And for the support of this
Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine
Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our
Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
OUR DEMOCRACY- >?***
pigggll Ours to carry on
One humored and seventy five years ago, Jt> brave men
signed thi? Declaration anp pledged to support it
WITH THEIR UVES, THEIR FORTUNES AND THEIR SACRED HONOR.
That valiant band not only founded a new nation, but
BEQUEATHED TO US THE INDOMITABLE WILL, THE FEAItLESS
SPIRIT OF FREEDOM, THAT BURNED IN THEIR HEARTS ANO
THOSE OF THEIR COMPATRIOTS.
OUR NATION L/i/SS BECAUSE THE SPIRIT Of THE SIGNERS LIVES.
'THE DAY WE CELEO&A TE "SHOUL D OCA DAY Of
REPEOICATION TO THEIR. IDEALS.
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under mental and physical pressure to roach their target, com
plete their mission and then run into trouble and into the un-'
friendly arms of the Pacific.
Then there was a fellow named Carey from way out in
North Dakota who we talked to many times about the things
we were going to do when the war was over. We remember
how he planned to go back home and set up his own corner
drug store, hut we also recall this same 22-year-old youngster
the day h# drove his burning plane into ft Jap headquarters
rnua iniur
The Franklin Press ifld TIhJ Highland* M ?ciM>ian
building and gave everything that he owned to help preserve
a thing we call "our way of life".
There must be such fellows In Korea today. American young
sters who are willing to die, to give all they've got, to destroy
those th.ngs that would rise up and slap Old Glory from her
staff. Yes, there must be some more Careys In Korea.
And then we unconsciously found ourselves laughing because
of a joke we remembered a Philadelphia Negro telling us in a
hospital ward in New Guinea. To us he was about the best
medicine we had while in the Pacific, and after he died we
felt a real obligation toward him because he had kept our
spirits up during one of those rough periods.
We recalled that he was in the middle of one of his yarns
when his heart gave way as the results of the typhus bug.
He died with a smile on his black face and hid his pain and
sorrow right up to the end.
There must be fellows In Korea today who find a lot of fun
left In life, right up to the final minute.
Then our car iaced up to the traffic light at the Intersec
tion of Academy and Main. We. stopped to let a half dozen
people pass across the street, and our mind went back to the
Liberty Ship that brought us home from the dirty mess in the
Pacific. And we recalled the helpless feeling we had when we
walked through the hospital ward and found .80 OI' lying In
straight jacket*, staring up at the steel beams and mumbling
incoherent words to themselves. Eighty Americans whose nrnds
didn't stand up under the pressure ? fellows who were being
b ought home to spend probably the rest of their lives caged
behind bars, useless to themselves and to the wor d.
Hundreds of such soldiers must now be making that long,
hot trip back to America from Korea. Comln? home without
e en realblng what Is happening. Casualty numbers, every
one of them, but to some people they are nice, line, clean-cut
American boys.
And then we drove down Ahoskie's Main Street where only
a few American flags were flying? where practically nothing
in the way of tribute was being paid to men who are gambling
everything In order that we might be able to stay out of the
dirty mess.
How ashamed we should have all f?lt. How little we were to
be so busy with our petty problems to Ignore those who offer
so much that we might have the right to the best on earth.
Ahoskie wasn't the only town that forgot, there were many
others that found a dozen or more petty excuses to skip over
Memorial Day for a fishing trip or a picnic.
The fear that we may have forgotten too soon was fresh
ened In our nrlnd Satu day as we watched an honor guard
bear away the body of Pvt. Henry Congleton, who gave his
all on a lonely Korean battlefield.
Many more will come home the same way . . . Just like
they did after World War II.
And you are worried about the cost of eggs, bacon and
beef . . . Why, friend you never had It so good.
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