Washington County News | 1920-05-20 | Page 3 | Our Nation's Heroes

our nations heroes on memorial day a thrill runs through every little hamlet in the land instinctively our thoughts turn to the little mounds beneath which sleep the nations dead ten thousand preach erstell ten million worshipers to honor the blue and the gray temples grand and ancl crossroads cross roads chapels ring with patriots hymn and national an anthem thern somehow the very flowers breathe a fragrance that makes the blood flow a little aster faster the reason Is memorial day and the nation honors her warrior dead ve ne think or of them with awed reverence we follow the crowds the bind plays orators extol and little children place flowers floi ers beside the stars and stripes of the veterans