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Show Its a fcx fcs Fji H q No Sectional Feeling in the Nation Today There are days In America to celebrate cele-brate and days to observe. One does not think of Memorial day as a time for celebration. Neither should It be given over to sadness because those for whom It has been set apart are the soldiers who have gone on to the greater adventure to their final re-wurd. re-wurd. Memorial day In America came Into being as a tribute to the men and the women who had made It possible for the Stars and Stripes to wave over all the hind. It was a time for flowers to be strewn upon the graves of the fallen and In the waters that ran dwn into the sea, In memory of the sailors who lost their lives In the Civil war; It was a time for addresses and ceremonies, cere-monies, through which the memory might be kf-pt green and the rising generation instructed In the debt owed those who had gone before. The time came when the old sectional bitterness passed, when the country' reunited In spirit as well as in form. Then It was that the gravr-s of the Confederate dead, wlic: her In the North or the South, also received floral tokens. Across the years tiie sections joined hands, love in th'-lr hearts Instead of hate; love of deeds of bravery hb! sacrifice, whether made In the caus' ' that triumphed or the cause that failed |