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*faithIFvictor'yPearl Harbor is 6,000 miles from Southington and Cheshire, and un-, .K •til last Sunday few persons in either. town had ever heard of it. Now Pearl Harbor takes its place among the rallying cries, of our history with Concord Bridge, FortSumner, the Maine and the Lusitania.Boys from both Southington andCheshire were in Hawaii , at the*time the war lords of Japan unleashed their attack on the islands. Deep anxiety has been felt here since the hour the war began, andb ' , . V' ' •• * . • ' ' /yet :with that anxiety has, been afeeling of pride in the circum-v ; ■ \stance that youths from these towns were in the front lines when the opening shot of the war wasThe tragic drama that began in,» «Pearl Harbor will be long and bitter, as the President indicated in^ • *his fireside chat of Tuesday night.From the factories of Southington and the farms of Cheshire hundreds of young men will go to far-flung battlefields prepared to sacrifice their own lives in the in-terest of the life of the nation.. On the home front all that mat-rs now is that the soldiers and ilors who march to battle have e unflinching support of the peo-;le they leave behind. The factories and farms of these two towns, now turned over to fulltime war production, can make a great contribution to the ultimate victory. Those persons who cannot contribute directly to the war effort through producing essential materials can do their part in civilian defense, where volunteers are urgently needed.Clear-cut thinking is no lessclear-cut action in our war emergency. We must not look hack and review what might or might not have happened beforetlast Sunday. The fact overshadow-• ■ *-Ug all others is that the United States is at war with Japan, Italy and Germany. We are allies of Great Britain and Russia. No matter what ties we have felt for any country or any political ideology before this, we must conduct ourselves individually as well as nationally as enemies of the Axis nations and as friends of Great Brit-*ain and Russia.Above all we must have a faith :at can conquer all. difficulties, faith in the eventual triumph of right over force, no matter how formidable that force may seem at the moment.
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Southington News
Southington, Connecticut, US
Fri, Dec 12, 1941
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