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the purpose of defending- homes, or serving the nation under the Stars and Stripes, in distant cities of the Southland or elsewhere.Our municipality In 1861 boasted such military units as the Iowa City Dragoons, Iowa City (Washington) Guards, already commented on in this department, the Iowa City Artillery company, and the German Artillery company. The splendid citizenship of the “newer American citizens—-sons of Germany, who had come here, or whose parents had crossed the sea years before, in quest of freedom and liberty, were conspicuous among the foreign-born, or those whose ancestors were natives of lands acrossmatter what is happening or may happen in the world, they would find peace of mind for themaelves— and they would give it to their children.%If grown-ups are troubled about what to believe—how much more troubled must be children, who sense that the grown-ups to whom they look for guidance are troubled and uncertain and are shifting values from day to day.That is one kind of security every mother and father could give their children—even in 1941. The sense of security that comes from knowing for sure what one considers right and what wrong, knowing it so surely that it naturally becomes the code by which one lives and makes decisions.LANCESto “princes and potentates overseas, or whose fathers had done so before them; men born in Europe; and men bom to those sons of Europe before, or after such immigrations, were proud and eager to come to the defense of their adopted country, or the adopted country of their fathers and forefathers.One stirring call, with the clarion clearness of a bugle note on a battle field, was issued in April, 1861, contemporaneously with the call of the Iowa City Dragoons, whose, offer of their services to President Abraham Lincoln and Gov. Samuel J. Kirkwood, has been recorded hereinbefore. The one now at issue is that of the German-Americans, printed in local papers, and heralded far and near, in flaming placards. It was a call to arms’’, in a sense, and was signed by C. W. Lionhardt (what a phonetically apropos patronymic) and Henry Poggenpohl.These two had fought hirelingsof tyrants in the eventful struggleof 1848 and 1849 in dictator-riddcn•Europe, and they had been asked by many of their fellow-citizens In Iowa City who had fought abroad, to call a patriotic meeting. They did so. accordingly, and urged all such patriots, with military experience. to come forward to the rescue of our adopted country, whose laws we have sworn to support, by our oath of allegiance. The stentorian call emphasized the need- of a company of devoted patriots, who know well their duty to God and their adopted country/’—i. E. R.da Tiirv env
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Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Iowa, US
Tue, Jul 29, 1941
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