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8. from the poppy fields of Flanders and the hedge-rows of Normandy, from Africa's burning deserts and Italy's beachheads and mountains, from the green banks of the Potomac and the deep burial grounds of the sea, your cear ones an n a mine — Americans all — stand prayerfully beside us beseeching us neither to appease nor be lulled to sleep by the deceitful plans and promises of the enemies of our freedoms which they so bravely died to save! . Upon my memory are imprinted the words of another great American, Benjamin Franklin, warning worde which also are as true today as when spoken two hundred years ago; words which might have come from the young, tender, now wuted lips of our soldier-sons who sacrificed their safety for our liberty as they beseech us to be neither deluded nor appeased: "Those who would give up their ‘essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety" said Benjamin Franklin “deserve neither liberty nor safety.* This famous statesman, whose greatest wealth was his wit, wisdom, loyalty and faith, who gave to his nation and to the world some of its most treasured documents, also bequeathed to us a fiery, fervent proclamation of patriotism which declared his unchallengeable devotion to his country. Addressed to a warm friend of fourteen years, a friend who, on the eve of the American Revolution, became a member of a body of men which Benjamin Franklin considered an instrument of treason and hostility to his beloved country, he wrotes "Dear Mr, Swcccces "You are a Member of Parliament, and one of that Majority