Word: enjoying
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gallant dead. The whole people with universal remembrance pays honor in its utmost to those who so freely died that their nation might remain unbound and undivided. They made the last dark sacrifice of life that this generation, and generations whose immensity we may not know, might enjoy the liberty and the strength of the great republic they had loved...
...enough to make those young men who now are entering into the inheritance of tradition and power which great men have built and left, stand half abashed before their own arrogance and their own indifference to the past, remembering that all they enjoy of liberty and power has been earned by the blood of those who held liberty and power above the poor boon of existence. We cannot be untrue to those who have given so much. We cannot leave a lesser inheritance to the future than we have received from the past...
...people, those who, while possessing small individual resources yet in the aggregate possess the bulk of our wealth, must enjoy their share of the loan. Not our bankers nor our brokers, but the people, are the nation. The people must be holders of their own bonds. It is a vote of confidence in their free democracy...
...things is the more serious because it is likely to prevent many good men from service in the corps by reason of the cost of board. Additional instructors are not necessary since the arrival of the French officers. With their aid, and the instructors already here, the Corps will enjoy better teaching than any training corps has ever had in this country, and instruction in modern warfare more perfected by recent experience than can at present be given in any camp in this country...
...singing of a national anthem has so long been associated with patriotic devotion that its value to a state has become axiomatic. When the cave-men first banded together to enjoy community life, they surely selected some guttural sounds which signified that they were ever ready to defend that newly-formed union. And so in ancient, mediaeval and modern times, each country has had its stirring call to duty. No one can question the power which "La Marseillaise" or even "Deutschland Ueber Alles" have exerted over their respective peoples. The United States of America has selected the "Star Spangled Banner...