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TWO
; By WILBORNE HARRELL A
t Those of you who were on the
losing side of the presidential
election, take heart, it isn’t as
though a foreign power had tak
en over our country—the Demo
crats aren’t so bad, after all.
They’ve had a lot of practice in
running this country. And now
that the shouting has almost died
down, let us remember that we
are all still Americans and this
land is still America. And the
president-elect, I know, is a loy
al, capable American.
Kennedy seems qualified to
fill the presidency with one ex
John Holmes Speaker
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ed around the Tomb of the Un
known Soldier in Arlington Na
tional Cemetery.
“Our Government has - grate
fully recognized. the, heroic war
dead by erecting on the wooded
hillside in .Arlington National
Cemetery across the Potomac!
irom Washington a great marble
amphitheatre that holds the bod
ies of three unknown soldiers:
one from World War L one from
World War 11, and "one from
the Korean War. These are
symbolic of all of our unknown
soldiers, whose very spirits hov
er over us at this moment like
a cloud of witnesses a/id call
upon us, the living, to fight or
until their mission is brought to
full fruition.
“The unknown soldier of
World War I was chosen on a
bright October day in 1921 at
Charlton-Sur-Marne. On that
day Sgt. Edward S. Younger, I
himself a medal of honor win-:
ner, stepped-forward and placed
a spray of roses on one of four;
caskets, containing the bodies of|
four Unknown soldiers: he step-1
ped back, saluted and it was
done. The casket with the body
of the soldier, thus selected, and
known only to God, was brought
to Washington and there interred
in the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier, a tomb which many of
you have seen, and one which
I hope all of you will see.
“Since the United States Con
gress set aside Armistice Day,
November 11th, as a legal holi
day in 1938, there have been
two other wars fought by our
country. World War II was a
much more expansive war than
World War I. World War II
was fought in the European-
North African Theatre, against
the German Axis and also in
the far Western Theatre against
Japan. Victory in Europe against
the German Axis came on May
8, 1945, and certainly V-E Day
was a dav for reloicmg and for
prayer. Then a few months la
ter victory in the Pacific or V-J
Day came on August 14th, and
this was another hallowed day.
Then the cessation of fighting in
Korea brought still another day
to be remembered. As a result
of so many davs of celebration
for cessation of wars, the Unit
ed States Congress in 1954 set
a day to honor all service men
and women who have served
the United States.
“And so it is fitting and prop
er that the Tomb of the Un
known Soldier be graced with
the remains of unknown soldiers
from our more recent wars. On
May 30th. 1958, two more un
known soldiers: one from World
War II and one from the Korean
War were placed in the Tomb
of the ; Unknown Soldier. Se
lecting the last unknown soldiers
was more- complicated than the
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ception: He sure wasn’t born in
a log cabin.
We hear the complaint go up
on all sides —there is nothing to
DO in Edenton! Now I ask you,
should a person be DOING some
thing all the time? Should .not
he reserve some portion of his
time to quiet reflection and con
templation Should not there be
a time when what a person doss
should be accomplished with his
head and his heart, and not al
ways with his hands and feet?
PASSING THOUGHT—If profan
picking of the unknown su.uiei
of World War I. This time there
was an extra battle theatre: one
in Europe and North Africa ana
| one in the Pacific. Thirteen
! bodies of unknown soldiers were
dis-interred from the European-
North African battle field ceme
teries and six candidates from
the Pacific , One was
selected from the thirteen from
the European Theatre and one
: from the six from the Pacific
I Theatre. These were brought by
Navy destroyers for a rendezvous
off the Virginia Capes. The ship
from the Pacific also brought an
unknown soldier of the Korean
War, chosen from the National
Cemetery near Honolulu. At
this rendezvous off the Virginia
Capes a final choice of the World
War II unknown was made.)
Navy Hospitalman 3C William R.
Charrett, a medal of honor win
ner, placed the spray of roses
on one of the caskets. The can
didate not selected, and still un
known as to whether from the
European or Pacific Theatres,
was buried with full honors at
sea. Then on Memorial Day of'
1958, with full military honors/
with official Washington, from!
President Eisenhower on down
participating, these two un-,
knowns joined the unknown,
soldier of World War I inside
Arlington’s Great Marble Amphi
theatre, surrounded by the head-!
gfenes and monuments of more
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ity was suddenly stricken from
the English language, a lot of
people would be struck dumb.
Phil O'sophy says: It’s better
to be a failure doing the thing
one loves and in which one can
put his heart, than to succeet
m something he dislikes and
whose doing is drudge, y and
frustration.
How to tell when a kid has
passed before you: sticky door
knobs.
No compromise with communism!
cnan 97,000 heroic dead. The in
scription of the tomb of the first
unknown soldier reads: “Here
rests in honored glory an Ameri
can soldier known but to God.”
The simple marble slabs cover
ing the resting places of the two
new unknowns bear only the
dates of the wars in which they
tell.
“I hardly know how to speak
of those whose virtues are so
numerous and whose glory so
' great. I shall, therefore, not at
tempt to cheapen by fulsome
1 praise the well deserved esti
| mation of those heroic dead that
I lies deeply embedded in your
I thoughts and memory. this
! Veterans Day must be a day of
[ memories: a day when we meet
in the hallowed past, and we
hold communion with our holy
dead. We pause to pay silant
and grateful tribute to those
gallant sons and daughters of
America who gave their lives
that the greet principles of lib
erty and justice might endure.
It was forty-two years ago this
very hour that the bloody carn
age of World War I was halted,
but it did not stop until thous
ands of the very flower of our
youth lay forever silent on the
slopes outside Verdun, in • the
forests of the Argon n e in
the meadows of the Marne. Many
of their bodies now lie in well!
kept cemeteries beneath the l n ngl
rows of white crosses, but thous-
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Prices come close—or even
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figure on a new Tempest.
ands more still sleep in unknown
and unmarked graves, far from
the place of their birth.
“The legion of the living who
carrte back to us from the flam
ing front should bind us for
ever to the voiceless slopes of
Verdun, the inarticulate hum of
the Argonne and the murmuring
meadows of the Marne, the
rocky slopes of Normandy Beach,
the white sands of Anzio, the
Bulge and the Rhineland, Pearl
Harbor, Bataan Peninsula and .
Corregidor. Now what about
us, you and me, here on this
Veterans Day in the year of our
Lord One Thousand Nine Hun
died Sixty? How can we best
honor those who fought in our
wars? The soldiers who fought
in the first World War were
old, and they believed, that they .
were fighting to save the world |
or democracy and to end ah
vars. How pitifully we failed:
hem is shown by subsequent !
wars: namely! World War II and 1
the Korean War What we sug
eest as a fitting theme for this
day of commemoration is a com
plete dedication of our lives to
the strengthening of justice and
right in the world. Futile, in- 1
deed, will be the observance of
this sacred day; of no avail will!
have been the sufferings of our
martyrs, if there be not born
in us the conviction that wars
with all their terrors must no
longer afflict mankind. Certain-;
!y a magnificent heritage is
ours. Let us Drove ourselves)
-v*rtw of it. Now what of thej
future? *
“We know that two great;
ideologies of life are striving for J
mastery of the world. Commu
nism on the one hand and de
mocracy on the other. We of
this generation mav decide for
all time to come which of these
two will triumoh. Shall it be
a godless Kremlin or shall it
be the Old Rugged Cross? How
well we train the children of
today will determine how great
IN APPRECIATION
Though I did not know I was running for Con
gress. and though I had to swallow the wormwood
and gall of defeat in the recent elections, and with
no hone in a re-count. I wish to make it known
that I deenly appreciate the solid support of you
who wrote-in my name on the ballot, both of you.
JAMES E. WOOD
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America is tomorrow. This is
a job that requires better homes,
better schools stronger church
es, better government and the
enrichment of every phase of
community life. We need a back
to God emphasis. Worship of
God, dependance upon divine
guidance and the spiritual train
ing of the youth have been char
acteristic of American life since
the birth of our nation. The
big trouble with the world to
day is that there exists a re
ligious vacuum in the huge land,
mass that is controlled by com
munism. We dare not permit
a religious vacuum in any
American community. Yet we
cannot blind ourselves to the
fact that religious vacuums
have occurred in too many of
our American homes. A child
brought up without religious!
training has no oermanent moral I
moorings. Whatever letdown hast
developed in our national char
terer stems largely from religi
ous vacuums in American
homes!
“Our experience during the
Korean War is a sad indictment
of this tragic situation. During
the Korean War in one Chinese
prison camp there were 21,000
young American fighting men
captured by the Reds. 7,000, or
one-third—were brain-washed to
the extent that they temporarily
collaborated with the Commu
nists! The U. $. Army made
an exhaustive study of this ap
palling “turncoating” by cap
tured American prisoners. The
Army came up with some most
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day and study the faces of our regular savers. Truly an inspir
ing sight!
So inspiring, in fact, that you’d want to join them. For the
thrift habit is catching.
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disturbing findings:
“1. Parents and communities
failed to develop in these young
men an appreciation of our coun
try and the things that made it
great.
"2. These “turncoats” had no
conception or understanding of
their individual responsibility of
American citizenship or obliga
tion to their country.
“3. They had no intense love
of hometown, state or nation —in
other words, they had no pa
triotic instincts.
“4. They had no understanding
of what they were fighting for.
“The Army’s frustrating con
clusion was that it could not do
in six months what parents and
communities couldn’t or didn't
accomplish in 18 years. This is
our problem.
“During the meatless and
sweetless days of World War I.
the people of this country went
to church and went down on
their knees and prayed to Al
mighty God to spare their sons,
their brothers, their fathers, their
sweethearts or their loved ones
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and promised that they would
ever be faithful to their vows
if their prayers but be answered.
Then when happy days and pros
perous times were here again,
many of those forgot their vows.
The same situation prevailed
during World War II and the
Korean War. Now I am not *
prophet nor the son of a prophet,
but there are some things
I devoutly believe. One of these
is, 'God is not mocked, whatso
ever a man soweth that shall be
also reap’. It is a dangerous
thing to lie to God. If wf
have met here today to pay
honor to our heroic dead, and
if we sincerely mean it, let US
prove it by our works and by
devotion to our duty. ‘Duty,’
said Robert E. Lee, ‘is the s:th
innest word in our language’.’’
RED MEN MEET
Chowan Tribe No. 12. Improv
ed Order of Red Men, will meet
Monday night, November 21, at
7:30 o’clock. Alton Shaw, s«T
chem of the tribe, requests a
large attendance.