State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
GOVERNOR
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NUV 23 1928
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º = |IGHT years ago the clamor of conflict ceased and a strange
– silence fell like a benediction upon bloody battlefields where war-
Bºſweary men were engaged in the most gigantic struggle of all times.
A storm of joy and thankfulness and solemn pride swept over the nation on
that eventful day in November 1918. Peace had come and with it a renewed
sense of national security; the justification of high ideals and a conscious-
ness of a fight well fought and honorably won.
We are fast becoming, however, to regard phases—of the late war
in the light of an evil dream and to overlook the ravages of war. It is
becoming increasingly easy to forget even the spirit which prompted our
own service. To the end that this spirit may be kept alive in our hearts
I designate Thursday, the eleventh day of November, as
and I recommend that it be observed throughout the State as a day of thanks-
giving for the victory of our arms and a day of commemoration of all the
heroic men and women whose sacrifices made that victory possible.
I recommend further that on this day, insofar as it may be practicable,
all business and traffic be suspended at eleven o’clock for a period of two
minutes in solemn tribute to our soldier dead. We can not too often re-
consecrate ourselves to the great thing for which they gave their lives.
independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-first.
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this eighth day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six and of the
By His Excellency’s Command:
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Secretary.








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