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FIRST CAR RIDE, FIRST PARTY. (pic.18)

by wyn_mathieson

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wyn_mathieson
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The Kings Message.
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A8953761
Contributed on: 
29 January 2006

KINGS MESSAGE GIVEN TO ALL SCHOOL CHILDREN

The Kings Message to school Children Which reads as follows:-

TO-DAY, AS WE CELBRATE VICTORY,
I send this personal message to you and
all other boys and girls at school. For
you have shared in the hardships and
dangers of a total war and you have
shared no less in the triumph of the
Allied Nations.

I know you will always feel proud to
belong to a country which was capable of
such supreme effort; proud, too, of
parents and elder brothers and sisters
who by their courage, endurance and
enterprise brought victory. May these
qualities be yours as you grow up and
join in the common effort to establish
among the nations of the world unity
and peace.
(The card is signed)
George R.I.

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