The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-09

Each Of us Kept It in many ways and in many places, for those of us who were at the front 1t meant the cessation of hostilities, The roar of guns had been incessant for 48 hours, the shells had been screaming overhead as they flew in both directions. Then suddenly there came quiet, so still that 1t could be felt, as one soldier put 1t to me, It was like going into church.
 "To those at home Armistice day was a time of eXuberant rejoic- ing as worry and anxiety gave way to unrestrained joy, For all it marked the end of the fighting and held high hopes of lasting and enduring peace. Once again man might devote his energies to build ing Q better world, a world in which the nations might live side by side, each recognizing the rights of the other and contributing to the advancement of true democracy.
 But 1t was not to be so. Armts- tiee day proved to be just an armistiee, a temp orary ending of hoStllitieS. Today t seems hollow and empty. The hopes of thousands have been dashed in ruins, the peace has been set aside; once again the nations are arrayed against each other in deadly strife; democracy human freedom, the rights of indi- viduals are challenged by deadly enemy; Christianity itself is threat ened, Our enemies have used the intervening years to prepare them selves for the onslaught they have now unleaSed against the cause Of freedom and liberty,
 By lies, by treachery, by deceit they covered their nefarious plans, By the same means they attacked the freedom loving peoples of the world in the endeavor to impose upon them slavery and subjugation to a tyrannical ruled. The hopes held out by the first Armistioe day have vanished to be succeeded by the grim reality of total war,
 "These two aspects stand in sharp contrast, the one against the other, yet even so Armistice day Is not completely void of signifi- canoe,
 First of all, 1t is day of re- membrarce, when we may rever- ently call to mind the gallant sac rifices of those who gave their all in the last war, those who made the supreme sacrifice: Yes, and we will not forget those men who today are suffering as result Of wounds which they received. Then we can make of 1t day of dedi- cation. We wiu not let 1t be said that they died ih vain, They pointed the way for us; they were in- spired by a lofty purpose, to this purpose they gave full measure of devotion. That for which we all fought, Is today more ruthlessly assailed, and we are summoned to dedicate ourselves anew to up- hold the torch of liberty and win freedom for ourselves and for those now ground beneath the heel Of tyranny.
 LuoNiN WG Hloy uiAhS EAHtAstaSe Day a day of solemn determina- tion day of high resolution that we will not swerve, that with Gods help we shall win a complete vic- tory, This time there will be no armistice which may again disap- point mankind, We will not wrap ourselves in isolation from our gall lant Allies, but rather we will cooperate with them In building a true and permanent peace.
 "There are some of the thoughts which press upon us as We keep our Armistice day flor us of the last war the day will always have associations but we look forward eagerly to the time when war shall cease, when under the leadership Of Christ the King, Nation shall not lift up sword against nation: neither shall they have war any more"