Show 10 F. F r I The Spirit of Patriotism FOR every mother and father with a son at nt the front 1 there is comfort in the words expressed by clore Roosevelt when informed of the death of his son q in an nn air nir battle on the French front Even in death there is a sad pride which comforts the hearts r fathers and mothers mothel's of men who give their lives in national devotion The bigness of the thc Roo Roosevelt parents j is s reflected in th the colonels colonel's statement as it demonstrates I the he capacity to make malie the grief gorier of a family's sacrifice subservient to a nations nation's wishes Proud in the greatest sorrow of life these parents must serve as a noble ex example x- x cample c- c ample to the thousands and thousands of mothers an fathers lathers who have tent their boys hos out in the world to battle for humanity and righteousness lC Quentin Roosevelt's moWer and I arc very ery glad he got to the front and had d a chance to render some service to lii hi his country and to sho show the stuff there was in him before his fate befell him These e words word will wiH live Jon long hong in history as ns reflective of that spirit of American forbearance in which truo true i patriotism is b born m Better Jetter to give c all than thaI suffer the I slings an and the indignities of evil C in III safety is IS tho the spirit j i which rings ring through the Roosevelt elt c statement There is is' is pity in th the note for the tho parents of those lhost brave boys wh who I lost lives on n the high bight seas in the vain ende endeavor vol to j 1 I reach the thc battle batte fields to lo strike their might against They arc none the I less s heroes and 1111 died wil with h the same dc degree ce of sacrifice as those who actually reached the front The greatest comfort that can can come to a mother or a father is to know that their sons matured with all nil tho lie qualifications of manhood The innate qualities of the theman theman theman man are arc tested in the caldron of war and men establish their worth in conflict with greater g dispatch than they do in civil pursuits The Tue soldier who lio la lays s 's down his life for his country countr leaves before the world evidence c of hii hi his possession of those qualities of manhood which must hea he be hen bea a n source of pride and antI comfort even cven in death to the thc parents who reared him |