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OCR Page 1 of 13SPEECH OF SENATOR HARRY S. TRUMAN
BEFORE THE GRADUATING CLASS OF NORTHEAST
MISSOURI STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, AT
KIRKSVILLE, MISSOURI, ON AUGUST 13, 1943.
TO BE RELEASED ON DELIVERY
I feel highly honored to have been invited here today to take part
in this commencement exercise and to meet with the faculty, the students, the
alumni, and many frilends of this fine institution, to address the Graduating
Class of the Northeast Missouri State Teachers College. I believe that all of
us owe a debt of gratitude to the founders and the faculty of this school, who
have labored so earnestly and conscientiously down through the years to preserve
and perpetuate the high standards and fine traditions that prevail today. You
of the Graduating Class have a continuing obligation to carry on these traditions
and to assume the duties and responsibilities of citizenship which now become
yours in this very complicated world we live in.
Today our cherished heritage of democracy and freedom is endangered by
the most desperate and powerful forces of evil that have ever banded themselves
together. This world-wide war will determine for generations to come whether
we will live in a world of democracy and individual liberty or in a world
enslaved, brutalized and terrorized by barbarous aggressors. That the United
Nations shall put an end forever to the regime of the Axis madmen no one doubts.
Our fighting men are steadily and surely attacking and destroying the outer
fortresses of the enemy. Our invincible will is stepping up the tempo of the
war and the inevitable day approaches when the gates of Rome, Berlin and
Tokyo will fall. We who remain at home must gird ourselves with redetermination
to use all our resources -- our material wealth, our ingenuity, our skill, all
those attributes of mind and soul from which freedom, as we know it, has come
TRUMANT
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