Bangor Public Library Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl Books and Publications Special Collections 1936 Comrades of All Wars: Bangor --- It's People and History. Memorial Book, Norman N. Dow Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars Hugh V. Knox Follow this and additional works at: https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs Recommended Citation Knox, Hugh V., "Comrades of All Wars: Bangor --- It's People and History. Memorial Book, Norman N. Dow Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars" (1936). Books and Publications. 192. https://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/books_pubs/192 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections at Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. It has been accepted for inclusion in Books and Publications by an authorized administrator of Bangor Community: Digital Commons@bpl. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. v' <' ,,... \.i-1 . • 7 0 COMRAD~S OF ALL WARS BANG.OR--- Its People and History * ~ CJoreword ./' Life is a train of moods li~e a string of beads, and as ·we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus ---EMERSON It is the editor's fondest hope, through the presentation of this book, that there may be brought a new point of view upon the cherished memories of the past, and in this broadened perspective find a new inspiration to greater things for Bangor in the future. Not to the great men nor even the students of local history, are these fragments offered; but to those thousands of people here who know their names, but whose angle of vision has been obstruct ed or even deflected so that they missed the struggle, the hardships, the forebearance, the heroism and the undaunted fortitude of the past that presents to them opportunities for a new and finel' vision; and like an unending string of beads bring Jife and moods into being here with many lenses, roseate in hue, even as this book with its facets reflects the past, the present and expresses a wish for the future JOHN JAMESON New Commander Norman N.