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Excerpt from Ninety-First Annual Report of the Municipal Government of the City of Nashua, New Hampshire: For the Financial Year 1943 We are meeting here today under far different circumstances than two years ago. At that time Pearl Harbor was but three weeks in the past. We were a sorely troubled nation, ill-prepared on the home front for the unknown trials and tribulations which lay ahead. There is no need to recall for you here today the giant strides we have taken in two years. All of you have played some part in our coming of age. Our factories are teeming with men and women who are turning out the materials of war with a skill and workmanship surpassed by none. Thousands of our young men and women have left the City for training camps and hundreds are carrying on the fight for us on every battlefront of the world. Those of you at home have cheerfully made sacrifices and have contributed in every way possible to necessary home front activities. Threat of disaster has brought us closer together. It has united us through the darkest chapters of our proud history. We have come, finally, to a greater appreciation of what our way of life has meant to us and how necessary it is going to be to continue that way of life for the future of generations to come. The end of the war, of course, is not yet in sight. But the dark days of uncertainty are over. We cannot be over optimistic in saying that the beginning of the end is at hand. The coming two years, in many respects, represent a challenge that we, as elected representatives of the citizens of Nashua, cannot ignore. It is possible that another administration will get underway before the present war ends and it might be easy to adopt a course of saying that we should not cross a bridge until we come to it. I, for one, would never rest easy if this war came to an end, suddenly, and it is possible, without our having prepared the way for those who are going to return to civilian life some day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.