Commonality

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Commonality

• How do these images and the recording relate to
  each other?

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Medal Why might someone receive this?
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What emotions do these song lyrics attempt to
stir in the listener or reader?
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What does this woman symbolize? Look closely at
the details!
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Who is buried here?
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Who are these people and what are they doing?
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This is an envelope. Why would anyone want to
use it?
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Listen to this speech. Make a list of the
speakers main ideas.
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• "Citizenship"
• I plead for a patriotism in peace as well as in
  war. Let us have not nearly that patriotism born
  of extremities which burns in the souls of men
  only when their country is in danger, but the
  patriotism of good citizenship in low places and
  in high places, in season and out of season. Let
  us have the patriotism which moves men to make
  their country's welfare their own business, and
  in prosaic times of peace, interest themselves
  continually in the politics of their communities.
  Good government is certain in no other way.

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• What we need in this country is not less
  politics, but more attention to politics. There
  must be two great political parties, and both
  should be strong and viral. If a political party
  does not stand for those things which will bear
  the severest scrutiny, it is not entitled to
  succeed and it will not endure. Let the political
  parties determine their acts solely by how they
  can contribute most to the country's good and let
  the individual membership give that attention to
  their party's affairs which is due the only
  instrument through which all individuals can
  apply their patriotism. There is no zone of
  twilight in politics. Right is right and wrong is
  wrong, and the same strict standard of righteous
  conduct must obtain as in any private business or
  professional matter. With our politics entirely
  on this basis, living our patriotism daily, we
  will do a citizen's full duty and not until then.

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• I have no use for the individual who is too busy
  to take part in politics. He has no just
  complaint to make. Whatever happens he is riding
  on another person's ticket. It is passing strange
  than men have to be urged to exercise the first
  privilege of a sovereign citizenship -- the right
  to help govern themselves. For this right this
  nation was founded, for this right the Union was
  preserved, for this right patriots have labored
  since the foundation of the republic, and that
  this right might be for all men everywhere we
  fought in France and drenched the plains of
  Europe with our blood.

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• Unless there is an awakened sense of civic duty,
  as the glorified result of our experience of fire
  and blood, we have lost the most important lesson
  of this war. Hundreds of thousands of men and
  women arose in the spirit of consecrated service
  and unselfishly carried the burden of war-works
  at home and abroad. I urge that this army of
  patriots now realize that they have a duty in
  peace as well in war. That the nation needs their
  continuing devotion, and that they owe this
  continuing service to their country's welfare. We
  are the freest government in the world, but our
  strength rests totally in that patriotism which
  moves us everyday to discharge the debt we owe
  this nation by making and keeping conditions
  right in this country.

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• The Republican party is the party of the future.
  It was born of a national necessity and from that
  hour has been a party of patriotism, with its
  loyalty measured only by the possibilities. And
  now with our eyes solely on the country's
  welfare, we will measure our steps forward by the
  new needs of the nation, continuing to be the
  instrument to apply to changing conditions the
  wisdom of experience and the efficacy of an
  honest, zealous servant. With a determination for
  an execution consistent with our record, squaring
  our performances with our promises, we will
  proceed to the fulfillment of the party's
  mission. God helping it shall be accomplished.

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• Resources
• DN-0002193, Chicago Daily News negatives
  collection, Chicago Historical Society.
• COLLECTIONAmerican Songs and Ballads
• REPOSITORYRare Book and Special Collections
  Division, Library of Congress
• DIGITAL ID
• Hays, Will H. 1 sound disc analog, 78 rpm 12
  in.n.d. American Leaders Speak Recordings from
  World War I and the 1920 Election, 1918-1920.
  Columbia Graphophone Company pressed and
  distributed the recordings under the Nation's
  Forum label made between 1918 and 1920. June 21,
  2006. http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/
  nfor_at_field(DOCID_at_range(9000002290000023))
• Digital ID cph 3g05602   Source color film copy
  transparency Reproduction Number LC-USZC4-5602
  (color film copy transparency) , LC-USZ62-75181
  (bw film copy neg.) Library of Congress Prints
  and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540
  USA
• Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical
  Society, Digital ID, nhnycw/aj aj90051 ad04004
  http//memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cwnyhs
  _at_field(DOCID_at_lit(aj90051))
• Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by
  Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge,
  Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1977. No.
  0755
• Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969-
  -Military service.United States.--Army.--Airborne
  Division, 101st--People.World War,
  1939-1945--Military personnel--American--England.
  Photographic prints--1940-1950.