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Nile Kinnick correspondence, January-May 1942
1942-03-21: Page 01
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Saturday March 21, 1942 U. S. NAVAL AIR STATION PENSACOLA, FLORIDA Dear Ben, Today is supposed to be the date of the vernal equinox, when the sun's center crosses the equator and day and night are everywhere equal. As surely as the world is round the sun will begin to rise earlier and set later, we shall have more light than darkness. Time and season wait on no man. And so it will go with this war. As the stars in their courses indicate the shifting seasons so do they proclaim that goodness shall triumph over evil, hope over despair. There has been so very little sunlight to cheer either America or Britain since the war started, and even now the prospect is dark and fore -
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Saturday March 21, 1942 U. S. NAVAL AIR STATION PENSACOLA, FLORIDA Dear Ben, Today is supposed to be the date of the vernal equinox, when the sun's center crosses the equator and day and night are everywhere equal. As surely as the world is round the sun will begin to rise earlier and set later, we shall have more light than darkness. Time and season wait on no man. And so it will go with this war. As the stars in their courses indicate the shifting seasons so do they proclaim that goodness shall triumph over evil, hope over despair. There has been so very little sunlight to cheer either America or Britain since the war started, and even now the prospect is dark and fore -
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