MESSAGE Or GOVERNOR ERNEST GREENING TO THE'AMERICAN LEGION CONVENTION
SE’./AET), OCTOBER 12, 1945
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Fellow Legionnaires: ..
Again I must express my regret that I cannot be toth you in person.
Various Alaskan assignments, about some of which I shall' have more to
say later, compel my presence In .Washington at t his time0 However, it
is a pleasure and a privilege to sorid you my cordial greetings and to
wish your Territorial Convention the greatest possible success.- •
Tills particular convention is an'
it is an uniquely important one.
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unusually Important one. I- might af >.
nil stand in the shadow of grea:.
greatest .ev.er>ts in <our\history ar.-'
our country came into being. Our
nation has passed through a grear
ordeal and come through with coioi
flying. It is difficult to over
state or to praise too highly the <r
quality and character of the success
that has come to American arms. Our
victory has been overwhelming,su
preme; victory on land; victory on
sea and under the sea; victory in
the air; victory in the realm of
overall strategy and tactics that i3
to .say'victory in leadership.Victory
in industrial production-victory in
short also on the homft front. By no
means least was our victor;/ of
science. And when I say science our
thoughts naturally turn to the
climax of‘the war, to the climax of
the: age ’and in a sense perhaps the
climax If all history, the discovery
of. atomic power resulting f rom the
.var, Srnd '-particularly resulting from
our great leadership, in that war,
iu.'t when I said victory in science
I did not, however, mean merely that
eleventh hour discovery and use of
atomic pbwer, stupendous and epoch
making as it was. I referred also
to the great achievements in the
field of medicine hastened .and de
/eloped by the war which under the
ible direction of the GurgoOtm
Jenerals, Major General Kirk of the
irmy and Vice Admiral Mclntlre of
the Navy, have saved hundreds of
tnousanns oi “lives or battle casual*
ties-li.ves which'would have been
lost in*the First World War. • Our*
victory in the field of Military t '
nedicine is on a par with the.othrer
great military achievements of.World
iVar II. And finally, and not . least;
ours haw been a victory of #the splrir
It has been the victory of .*a peace'
f-ul people; of a people reluctant to
5-0- to war; of a people seeking by
;very hpnorable means to avoid con
flict, but,of a people .determined to
maintain its way of ’ life,.-determined
:o maintain Hs inherited freedor:. • -
ond in"maintaining that freedom for
ourselves bringing It potentially -
;o the rest .of majiking. These have
Jeen the victories In which the
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