State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
GOVERNOR
It is significant and a record of which any nation
may well be proud that every war in which our country
has fought has been a struggle for the noble ideals of
liberty and freedom. Greed and oppression have never
been our purposes but instead defense and deliverance.
Twenty-nine years ago in Havana Harbor, an event
occurred which was to be the forerunner of a war fought
in the interest of an oppressed people, whose claim on us
was only that of a common humanity.
To the end that this spirit may be kept alive in our
hearts and as a memorial to the men of the navy who
died aboard the Maine and to the men who subsequently
died or were willing to die, I hereby designate the fifteenth
day of February next as
and I direct the observance of the occasion in all of the
schools of the State by suitable exercises according to
law. We should remember that in honoring the first
dead of the Spanish-American War we not only commem-
orate but reconsecrate ourselves to the great principles for
which they died.
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford, this third day of
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven and of the
independence of the United States the one hundred and fifty-first.
By His Excellency’s Command:







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