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worth fighting for ~ a flag still symbolic of liberty cherished, bought and paid for by trie blood of our sons and brothers, our What, my dear friends, is the spirit of a nation? Whence is 1t born? Is it frou out fertile fields and broad plains, from mighty sweeping rivers and snow-bosomed mountains, from pulsating, populisus sities and quiet towne and sountrysides that the soul of a nation is brought forth? No, the spirit of a nation is far more than her material resources or agricultural and industrial endowments, wonderful and bountiful blessings though they be. The epirit of a nation is something immaterial yet real, seemingly intangible yet some thing we witness many times each day, something too deep for utterance yet hailing us from every housetop, present in the grasp of the hand of a speaking to us from every rose bush and lilac bank, preached to us by the honest faces and virtues of our neighbors, and revealed to us - in every gallant gesture, action and sacrifice of our noble dead. imerica 4a the will of her people to endure as a powerful yet peace-loving independent nation and to protect and assist in every way possible the oppressed of all lands, to defend the trampled rights of the weak, to champion the cause of democracy in the face of despotic might. The spirit that is Anarica 48 the intelligence of Americans that enables them clearly and oalmly to envision God among the myriad mirages of mcdern