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Summer of '45 by William S. Phillips
It is the Fourth of July, 1945 and the celebration
is even more significant this year - the war in Europe has ended.
As a country, everyone hopes and prays that the war in the Pacific
will come to a quick conclusion. A young boy and girl sit on the
front lawn with their faithful companion and enjoy the fireworks
in the town below. These children symbolize the post-war hope that
perhaps soon all would live in peace. In the distance a thunderstorm,
the "cloud of war," begins to move away. High in the sky overhead
a civilian version of the new Lockheed Constellation ushers in a
new era of peacetime air transportation.
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