Show ilk K az r cand virginia infantry A a six gun battery on el elated ground overpowered the and captured tho the puns guns A cadet mounted fl a caisson and tb waved tho the academy S flap flag and how the triumphant youngsters al rolled 1 they lost 8 77 killed and 40 wounded in that wild charge truly the american Is tile the same P 7 r fighting man from one generation to another i rg memorial day will see both tho the blue and the gray in llna line marching as bravely da as of yore but alas tho the steps will be b feebler and banho ranha thinner herewith la is pictured mal maj giles H B cook who has hag just left the white house after inviting resident president coolidge to attend the commencement exercises of the lawrenceville industrial school of virginia ile he Is said to bo be the only survivor of tile twelve members of tho the staff that surrendered with gen robert D E leo lee to general grant at appomattox p po 0 in mattox a t t 0 x court house undo uncle jack armstrong of windsor IN S 0 eighty years or of age Is said bald to be ba MW the only survivor of aw 4 the first south carolina av vi I 1 1 I 1 t 1 1 1 1 infantry 0 S A i the oldest member of the G A it IL in new england Is henry D lay of west newbury mass who celebrated his hundredth the other cr swam 1 a birthday la day with hla his good wife by hla his side and by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN va C 00 surrounded by ahll DAY Is with 1 again and again fill all good americans will fittingly observe this national hollday holiday day and holy day for it la Is a holy day in fl a sense it Is tile most comprehensive of all our days of national rational observance for memorial day line has grown 2 ILS the united states of america has grown BS as the american people have grown brown memorial day la Is now hallowed by more than fifty years of observance think what it has now come to mean to us can you not read into it something of the spirit of every one of our days of notional national observance surely on memorial day an american can make good resolutions 03 ill fittingly tingly he na on now new years day find end with much to inspire them the birthdays of lincoln and washington are closely akin to it arbor day with its memorial trees nad and its sense of responsibility i to posterity Is closely in touch easter day and memorial damare day are inseparably bound together in ninny many loving and trusting hearts and memorial rial day Us fits land hand in glove glore with flag day with independence day with Amil armistice stice day there Is something or of thanksgiving day in it and something of the christmas good will on memorial day in short wo we weep as wo we strew flowers because tho the bend uro are our kin we thrill with pride that they so BO nobly died we rejoice that they are in gods keeping we assemble not to rekindle vengeful fires not to exult over tho the defeated not to glorify war or to exalt militarism but to give eve thanks of the providence that line watched over our nation and to pledge ourselves anew to the cause caus 0 of liberty bur humanity naulty and justice to which our notion nation Is dedicated memorial do day means to us all that old glory nicais means t hats oft along the street there corne comes A blare of bugles a ruffle of 0 drums drum A flash of color beneath the sky hate ofil the flag Is passing by blue and white whits and crimson it over ove r the steel tipped ordered lines line ila ciata t s 0 oatt ff th alia colors colora before us ly fly but ut more than the flat flag li Is passing by fea foght and land fights grim and great fought feusht to kakoi and to navi dave 5 the state weary marches and ana binding ships cheers cheera of victory on dying lips days day of plenty add in d years of 0 peace march of i stroner lands lande swift increase equal justice right and law stately honor and reverent awe signoff a nation great and strong to ward her people from foreign wrong pride and glory and honor all llva live in the colors to stand or fall all moreover memorial day will bo be observed at the very ends ot of the earth for nt at tho the very ends of the earth are burled buried our american soldier dead in tho the eight american war cemeteries in europe flowers will be strewn by toying loving hands and tribute paid by eloquent tongues in france in belgium in england diverse indeed were tho the tongues and colors that made up tho the yanks tonics of tile the A 10 F and tar far away indeed rest some of these yanks sergeant Demos theno theria burdelas Bur dells who died for liberty under the flag fing of tho the united states was borrie borna by men in the uniform he had bad worn to the lands ot of his fathers among the isles of greece in the mediterranean and there interred with nil all tho the honors of war do you think that grave will be neglected memorial day sam baro soo aloo was born in son san francisco tha thi world war found him in china married and the father of three children sam traveled many thousand miles to enlist in the rainbow division and to get to tho the front at fere en ills journey ended ono one hellish night in jo of 1018 1918 duclo sam nt at the requard ot el hla his rola rein attiq thi sent the body miles by land and by sea that their amerlean american soldier might rest near tho the graves of his big ancestors at ajla gl chuen in shin ling lang just beyond the south goto gate tat san shen do you think the grave of sam soo aloo will bo be neglected memorial day there Is a thrill jn n each crich of the pictures herewith fighting new market over again by tho the united states marines and the cadets cabets of tile the virginid virginia military academy reacts re enacts tile the battle or of now market in the famous shenandoah valley fought may 1 15 here ilera tile the confederates under breckenridge defeated tile tho union forces under siegel there Is probably no secondary battle of the civil war of more importance had siegel won lee could not have love spared the men to check his advance without ex exi posing richmond nich mond to immediate and perhaps inevitable capture tile the fact that new market could be re enacted with tho the applause of thousands of spectators shows how thoroughly the wounds of the civil war are arc healed the mimic battle atso recalls tile the glorious part of the lie cadets cabets in the lie ISM battle ittle bf there were of atheni fill under alteen under colonel still ship me of their professors they hey stood ns as veterans under palling artillery fire alre then they charged with the and great grandchildren what changes have been wrought in the span of his hl life I 1 the political world lias has practically been made over the industrial and c commercial 0 world has been revolutionized the whole scheme of living has been changed the american people have marched arched in from the mississippi sis sippi to the pacific when henry D lay was born in 1824 there were only twenty four start stars on the flag tho the western boundary of the united states was the rocky mountains and the red bed river missouri and louisiana were the only two states west of the mississippi no figures are at hand band f for or the united confederate veterans whose general commander la Is gen william B 1 haldane louisville ky but the figures tor for tho the grand army amy of the tha republic whose commander in chief Is gaylord M van wert 0 tell a saddening story the peak of the membership was in 1800 it in 1021 tho the membership had dwindled to in 1802 it was the decrease in grand army posts 1021 1921 2 wits waa to so this year there will be fewer veterans in blue allue and in gray to tD cheer and more graves to cover with blossoms hut but praise god we can strew flowers alike ailko lee for sherman and jackson Jach Bon for sheridan and for their men with iove anil and tears for the blue tears and love for or the gray two new graves there are this memorial day to which the thoughts of tile the american people will instinctively turn tho the gravo grave of warren On mallol and the tha grave of woodrow wilson kach each was waa stricken town down in the service of alq hl country ench each deserves well ot of his country out of the blue and the gray came cama the oil oh that the thousands who wish it could strew flowers over there I 1 f far r away are flanders fields upon hla his krave grave to lay my rosea rose and forget me noti my rosemary ro mry and bay k scarlet poppy on my breast will speak memorial dayl doubtless the quintessence of the amerlean american peoples thoughts on meno tint day will be in th tho rings nt fit the national shri neIn in arlington the tomb 0 of f our unknown soldier we rather him to the Nal Natio loii lili breast within the shadows of 0 the ea capitol pitol ot of the towe bhatt aha that honors honora wash ington the treat great father ather and of 0 the e x monument to Lin lincon von the th m martyred marty red savior |