All our lives my father treated his sons and daughters as companions. When we were not with him he wrote to us constantly. Everything that we did we discussed with him whenever it was possible. All his children tried to live up to his principles. In the paragraphs from his letters below, he speaks often of the citizens of this country as "our people." It is for all these, equally with us, that the messages are intended. "New Year's greetings to you! This may or may not be, on the whole, a happy New Year--almost certainly it will be in part at least a New Year of sorrow--but at least you and your brothers will be upborne by the self-reliant pride coming from having played well and manfully a…
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