Show decoration DAY the swift wings of time has bas brought us to another decoration day and with it the memories of brave men and patient dufferin auf suffering ferin t women who risked their all for the preservation of this union bothin nothing but death can erase the deeds the daring and sacrifice of the multitude who sleep beneath thousands of flower covered mounds it is most fitting that one day in three hundred and sixty five should be set apart to decorate every soldiery sol Bol diera grave some are unknown aye it is unknown to many where their loved ones fell or where their poor bodies were interred but a grateful country has t gathered the bones of all unknown and buried them in consecrated ground consecrated to I 1 the memory ot all heroic dead known and unknown at the return of each memorial day the whole nation gathers around these cherished graves and covers them with tributes of love lore and remembrance the great majority have joined the silent hosts who inhabit the city of the dead in a few more brief years their comrades will to the last man have joined them on that echo eless shore but their childrens children down to the end of time will repeat the ceremony inaugurated by one who led their invincible hotts hosts on to victory and to glory his name and theirs will not perish inobe in the flight of time ribble deeds make names immortal every year some borne touching incident occurs which brings the tears to eyes unused to weeping an aged wife mother father or friend is is seen wending their way way to some sacred spot with the tokens of the i dear ones whom they mourn little children too come with flowers to lay on the grave of some one they have been taught to revere for deeds of bring garlanda garland gai landa ts green and flowers bright and cover the humblest mound and with them bring loyalty to god goa and country and charity for the helpless ones they have left behind and for the weary veteran who still totters town down lifes rugged road |