Show spirit of the dy day it was no accident that the united states which has fought fewer wars than most ost great countries was the first to institute a memorial day for its war dead nor was it an accident that it was instituted just after a war which represented a moral uprising against slavery and a fervent determination to keep the nation united wati high objects went a high emotion A dc democracy has a special feeling for those of its sons who have died in battle A people which has given hundreds of thousands of young men for such causes as were at stake in the civil war instinctively desires some means of honoring the men find and the causes together new york fork world |