Show j 1994 L mud virginia infantry a six gun battery on elevated viol over av 1 3 g ry 4 OK vla ia P k arx Z F qa 24 it IN 00 c iby by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN DAY Is with us again and again all good americans will fittingly observe this national hollday holiday and holy day for it Is a holy day in 0 sense it Is the most comprehensive of all our days of national observance for memorial day has grown the united states ot of amerle america a has acron wn n as the american people have WIL memorial day Is now hallo hallowed wed by re ire than fifty years of 0 observance vance link ink what it has now como come to mean 0 us can you not read into it some ng ing of 0 the spirit ot of every one of our t s of national observance surely on memorial day an amerl n can make good resolutions as fit dy as on new years day find with ch to inspire them the birthdays lincoln and washington are closely in to it arbor day with its memo il I 1 trees and its sense of to posterity Is closely in touch setter ster day and memorial day are in ipar ably bound together in many lovig g and trusting hearts and memo at al day fits hand in glove with wit h flag lay ay with independence day with I 1 mastice day there Is something of day ay in it and something f the christmas good will on oil memorial day in short we weep i we strew flowers because the dead e our kin we thrill with pride that icy ey go BO nobly died we rejoice that icy ey are in gods keeping we le e not to rekindle vene venze ful fires not i exult over the defeated not to glorify war or to exalt give thanks of the providence that U watched over our nation and td ledge edge ourselves anew to the cause of berty humanity and justice to which ah lir r nation Is dedicated memorial day tm 2113 to us all that old glory means 10 is t oni off I 1 long ong the street there comes hire blare ot of bugles a ruffle ot of drums A flash vt of color beneath the sky 0 is t off t 0 flag fins la in passing by 0 0 0 fie and nd white and ana crimson it phines er the steel etcel tipped ordered une lines is t ofaf A it 0 colors color before us in fly 14 t more than the nag flag la is passing by X o lights and land fights grim and great light cht to make and to save the state ry marches and sinking ships ter era of 0 victory on dying lips y a ot of plenty and years of peace ch of 0 i at strone rong lands swift watt increase Inc 11 a justice right and law aly r honor and reverent awe tn 11 ol of a nation great and strong etrone ward ard her people from foreign wrong pride and glory elory and honor all live in the colors to stand or fall all moreover memorial D day ay will be observed at the very ends ot of the earth for at the very ends of the earth are burled buried our american soldier dead in the eight american war cemeteries in europe flowers will be strewn by loving hands bands and tribute paid by eloquent tongues in france in belgium in england diverse indeed were w ere the tongues ton and colors that made up the tanks yanks of the A E F r and far away indeed rest some of 0 these yanks sergeant sergeant demosthene burdelas Burdel Bur dells lg who died for liberty under the ring flag of the united states was borne by men in the uniform he had worn to the lands of ills his fathers among tile the isles of greece in the mediterranean and there interred with all the honors of war do you think that grave will be neglected memorial day sam soo hoo was born in san francisco the world war found him in china married and cie father of three children sam traveled many thousand miles to enlist in the rainbow division and to get to the front at fere en we ills journey ndel one hellish night in bols 1 I of 0 1018 1918 urcle sara sam fit at the request of t his rela tiva tl sent the body miles by land and by sea that their american america soldier might rest near the graves of his ancestors at afa gl chuen in shin ling just beyond the south gate cate tat tal san shen do you think the grave of sam soo noo HOO will will be neglected memorial day there Is a thrill in each of the pictures bere herewith with fighting new market et over again by the united states marines and tile the cadets cabets of tile hie virginia Mill lary tary academy re enacts the hattle battle of new Illar market icet in the famous shenandoah valley y fought may IS 15 1861 here the confederates under defeated tile the union forces under siegel there Is probably no secondary battle of the civil war of more importance had siegel siege won lee could not have hare spared the men inen to check ills his advance without exposing richmond to immediate and perhaps inevitable capture tile fact that new market could be re enacted with tile the applause spectators shows how bow aly the wounds of the civil war are healed hen leil the mimic battle also recalls the hie glorious part of the cadets cabets in the as 1801 i battle there were 22 of it them nil 1111 under sixteen under colonel ship ole of their professors they stood steady ns as veterans v under artil levy fire then they charged with the powered the runners gunners and captured the guns A cadet mounted a caisson and waved the academy sag flag and how chetri the triumphant youngsters yelled I 1 they lost 8 killed and 46 wounded la in that wild charge truly the american Is the same fighting man f from born one generation to another memorial day will see both the blue and the gray in llna line marching as bravely as is of yore but alas alaa the steps will be ba feebler and ranks fanlo thinner herewith Is 13 pictured maj giles B cook mho ho has just left the white house after inviting president cooled cooledge le to attend the commencement exercises of the abo lawrenceville industrial school of virginia ginia he Is said to be the only survivor of the twelve members of the start staff that surrendered with gen robert kobert E D lee to general grant at appomattox porn po attix mattox court house uncle jack armstrong of windsor S C eighty years of age Is said to be the only survivor of the first south carolina infantry C S A the oldest member of the 0 A IL in new england Is henry D lay of west newbury mass who celebrated his hundredth birthday the other day with his bis good wife by olca LV a COC T TA surrounded by chu chit st d r e n grandchildren and great grandchildren what changes change have hae been brou wrought in the span of me hi life I 1 the political world has practically been made over the industrial and commer commercial cial world has been revolutionized the whole scheme of if living has been changed the american people have marched from the mississippi sis sippi to the pacific when henry D lay was born in 1824 4 there were only twenty tour four start stare 0 on n the flag the western of the united states was the rocky mountains and the red river missouri a and nd louisiana were the only two states west of the miss mississippi Is no iso figures are at hand tor for tile the united confederate veterans whose general commander Is gen william B 13 haldane aldane II louisville ky bu but t the figures tor for the grand army of the republic whose commander in chief is 13 gaylord gas lord M van wort wem 0 tell a saddening story the peak of the membership was in 1890 1800 in 1021 the membership had dwindled to in 1892 it was the decrease in grand army posts 1921 2 was to 5 so tills this year there will be fewer veterans in blue and in gray to cheer and more graves to cover with blossoms but bilt praise god we can strew flowers alike for or grant and lee for sherman and jackson for sheridan and sturart and for their men with love anh and tears for or the blue tears and love for or the gray two new graves there are this memorial day to which the thoughts of the american people will instinctively dively turn the grave of warren Ga gamaliel mallel IT arding and tile the grave of I 1 woodrow wilson each was stricken down fa the service of his country each deserves well of his country out of the blue and the gray came cam the khaki oh that the thousands thousand wio wish it could strew flowers over there I 1 gut bill too far ar away are arc flanders fields upon his bis prave arave to lay uy my roses roe and torget me inc bots nots my rosemary and bay A scarlet poppy on rny my breast will speak Ble memorial morial dayl day doubtless the quinte quintessence sence of the Amer american tenn peoples thoughts on memorial DY adny will be in the offerings at the natt lonal shrine in arlington the tomb of our unknown soldier NV we gather eather him to the th nations bryatt within the shadows ot of the capitol of the towering shaft that honors honora washington the great rather father anil and of th he exquisite monument to lincoln tha martyred marty red savior |