Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-09-01 | Page 19 | Martyr Mothers

t 46 III Martyr art Mothers MOTHERS 1 of men are arc rapidly claiming their own in inthe inthe the hearts of our ur soldier boys hoys a as the stern deI demands demands de de- de- de I mands mantIs of war brin bring their sous sons face to face with new v dangers no Boys s 's who were not very ery demonstrative in their devotion to mothers before the war now v turn their foremost thoughts to her and home Unfortunate it is that these mothers cannot read the last thoughts of their boys for Lor then their grief would be easier to bear It would be a source of great grent comfort to mothers if the thelast thelast thelast last thoughts of their sons could be to them across the seas The grief of the parting would he be benone henone henone none the less but the pr pride de that every mother would feel in those thou thoughts would make that grief g sweeter Inn inn lin 1 4 0 In ll n i rt l I n i ionI tir io 1 n c 1 mi C Uv J luLL U LL b privilege through h a n. friendship established in ill iii the heat of ot battle While she has not been given ell every ery thought of her hero son through his faithful comrade she has been permitted to know that his last thoughts were of her T We e reproduce a letter written by a marine at the behest of a a. comrade lost lust in ill the maelstrom of war The letter follows At the tho Front June 26 26 6 1918 1913 Dear Mrs Spearing Their is grief lie in m my heart hearl and nd in the hearts hc o of all allm m my comrades for tor the tho great reat sorrow that this tills war has brought to you ou an and to us We c all unite to express our heartfelt s sympathy th an and condolence to mother tho and family of one ono who has fallen In a. a cause as imperishable an as will be the names of or those who have fallen to der defend n It Should thero he ho nn anything my comrades and I can do doto doto doto to mitigate your our rl g-rl grief C and to allay your our sorrow sorrow some some little l keepsake of Walt V as s n no marine perhaps but name It It dear la lady 3 and It Il shall traverse tr the ocean to you Because you ou do not know me do not think It presumptuous for tor me lue to write You are arc Walts Walt's mother I I was his Inseparable blo friend an and comrade that makes us UH two kindred souls In common grief Irle for tor cur nearest rest and dearest Then too this letter fulfills a duty th that t I Iam Iam Iam am bound b by oath and will to perform Many months ago Walt VaIt and I promised each oth other r. r that should tho the Go God of ot Battle call c to one one tho other would console consolo the sorrowing sorrowing- mother Now Walt It has gone rone West est to Homo home and to you Ou forever Core but his figure his voice olce his won wonderful wonder wonder- erful er- er ful personality will always be living hiving truths to me I I. I myself should tho the great call come ome will win go gladly confident confident con can tl ent of or a reunion an and with faith in tho the eternal truth ot or that cause for which I r die Beneath the green in Balleau Woods forever connected con eon with the tho Honor of ot the tile Marines lies Walt all with two comrades dead on tho the Field of Honor Above th thIr lr graves the stately st pines sway in their grandeur an imperishable im Sm- perishable monument But greatest test of all an epitaphs Is that engraved within the hearts of or his comrades A Aman Aman man than whom there was no peer In kindliness in understanding un un- in comradeship beyond compare We Ve alone know what could coul have c been l had d circumstances so willed it Whatever befall whatever sorrow fills us us one thing r I swear to you hero here hard hal b by that lonely grave the grave the very ery paper that I r write upon taken t-aken in a captured captured German dugout I dugout I swear that Walt nIt is well avenged that he has not died in vain for tor his spirit le leads s us on to ultimate victory You arc are proud I know Inow for you ou are arc the mother of or a n martyr a martyr a martyr In a a. holy cause freedom and lIbert liberty Den Dear I lad lady the vcr very thought that you are In grief t tears rs m my heart Do not sorrow Death after all all Is not so terrible and here here why why here hero It is glorious Mother lother In the name of or the Twenty third company compan in inthe tho the name namo of or the marines I salute you and all my comrades comrades com corn rades salute you ou S Devotedly SOL SEGEL Twenty third company Fifth Firth r regiment United States State m marines arm e s. s Every ery mother is not g given cn this comforting message but bub we believe belie that way down yn do own in her heart she sho must feel the thin things s that this marine marine has recorded There is not a mothers mother's son in that great struggle over oyer there but what is made of the stuff that makes heroes With this in mind min l they may assume if the words are never spoken that she occupies a 1 hi high h place in his last thou thoughts Sh She might have lived long in ill peace without acquiring this knowledge for the tile question would neer never newer new nev er be lie asked Let this thought be her comfort in a great sorrow lie He died lied a man and he blessed his mother for the manhood given him hiim Ps Pa Judge Evans Ewans has ruled that marriage docs does not exempt woman ivonian from work And many nany women have lun-e discovered this tills before the honeymoon wane waned a Sa tea The Tue reason why the German line on the west vest front frontis is shorter is because it is longer in the tile direction ol 01 Berlin Pa a sj Someone might SU suggest to Spain that the water is not so cold coM as it looks isa ta