Show U B D va 13 1 4 X iza e K A rill KA 6 1 6 AA 0 let us not forget that without get and antietam Antle tam there would have been no balleau wood and chateau th erry and argonne forest represent active M clyde kelly relly of pennsylvania by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN GAIN comes memorial day tl TI e recurrent miracle of the spring provides the outward and visible sign of its inward and espiritu il grace so there will be W floN flowers vers both for the blue and for the gray and for the khaki which the blue and gray united to make again shall we see the th aged forms of the veterans who fought under grant and under lee under sherman and stonewall jackson under sheridan and stuart and do not let time dim tor for you the martial glories of their battles for there is more to memorial day than smiles alil u tears and tears and smiles for the blue and the gray the united states of america does not go wound with chip on shoulder but you know and I 1 know away down deep that we americans are the most warlike people on this earth and the most desperate in battle the stars and stripes has never yet trailed in defeat I 1 lob lt there was fighting it belleau wood and at chateau thierry but there was fighting at gettysburg and antietam Antle tam too read these lines by the laconic grant crant who neer neier wasted a d word and saw things as they were in his chapter entitled battle of the wil wit berness at 5 10 in the afternoon lee at tacked our left his line moved up to within a hundred yards of ours and opened a heavy fire the enemy pushed through our lines plant ing their flags on a part of the in trench ments not on fire fight right ing had continued from five in the morning sometimes along the whole line at other times aply in places the ground fought over varied in width but averaged three quarters of a mile the billed and many of the severely wounded of both armies lay within this belt where it was cally impossible to reach them the woods were set on fire by the bursting shells and the conflagration raged the wounded who lad 1 ad not strength to move themselves were either suffocated or burned to death finally the fire tire communicated with our breast in places ben bell g constructed of A wood they burned NN with ith great fura fur but the battle still briged our men firing tiring throng the flames until it became too hot to remain longer lee was now in distress during the night all of lees army withdrew with diew their entrenchments ments let us give full meed of honor to the survivors sun ivors of those heroic davs dais for soon alere tl ere will be no survivors sun ivors either in blue or gray consider the story that comes from bradford pa because only eight of the civil war Net veterans erans who made up encamp ment no 0 o 7 union veteran legion are still living and only tl ree of this number are able to leave their homes the robter I 1 as been presented to the mckean county H st orical society for preservation the encamps ent w was wis is made up of Ne who nho flo flocked cled to bradford with the discovery of oil soon after he be close f the war they api resented more thin regiments and most of tl em had been wounded in action new now lork ork co tributes tri buted 41 yv 41 0 73 7 3 1 pennsylvania 29 ohio 12 wisconsin 5 massachusetts and vermont 3 each illinois and connecticut 2 each indiana kansas missouri and mich igan 1 each time they say heals all wounds it Is well that it does but time also erases memories and this Is not so well mell time should not be allowed to entice us away from the music of the boisterous drum and silver voice of the heroic bugle of the das dais of american citizenship came out of the crash of combat not only unscathed and unblemished but also enriched and glorified glo rifled and it was tor for that very citizenship the war was fought the spanish american war was a short war nar and soon over but it was a tremendously important war for all that this war put the Imet mcilvan ican navy on the seven seas to stay it made the united states a ii orld power over night it was to the world an object lesson that the Ameil can of 1898 1808 was still the same old fighting man of 1776 1770 and 1812 and 1848 and 1881 1861 and it was in this war that the blue and the gray first blended into tl it e khaki when ellei and wheeler fought under the star sp spangled angled ban ner der and drove the blood red flag of spain with its yellow heert from its last staff in the western Homi sphere the way was clear for complete recon cill dilation atlon between the north and south one day tn in 1898 a great transport of the united states bearing 2000 american soldiers and sail rs left a dock in the hudson river riv er for the pt PI il it this great ship north instead of south and steamed vly y up the hudson to the tomb of grant and then a mighty salute was given when the grant was dell bated in Nv washington ashington it was a veter n in gray who flung out the flag and said he gave us this no more reverent homage Is paid at the tomb of the unknown dead in arlington than by the gray Net veterans erans of bald said president harding last month at augusta and remember it wis w is through georga that sherm chermin in marbled mancl ed from atlanta to the sea I 1 believe the framing of tl e constitution was inspired I 1 believe it with gods intent and yet there was vilis an ambiguity in this constitution that brought the north and south foged er in a great civil war and that thit ity had to be wiped out at great costs ind yet again this Is one f the best clings tl ings that has ever happened to the kmer american ican republic because it h is brought us to a greater understand unter stand ing I 1 want to say no v I 1 do it 11 belien e there is a vestige of the civil war feel ing left in the united stat states stats s I 1 sa s1 s ole obe last year to an assemblage I f C need erate Ne I 1 never had such a cor dial reception in my life I 1 hav e been president of the united states a little more than two years and I 1 have never heard more cordial expressions more generous tenders of operation cooperation more earnest wishes for the good fortune of the republic than those which have come from the states of the south and which are not in party sympathy with the adminis tra tion abraham lincoln once said away back in 1837 prom 1777 to 1837 00 long years tl e nation has thrived and grown great in the visible presence of this th surviving heroes and heroines heroine s 0 t tl I 1 it revolution the very sight of them in us but no nov v in 1837 these are all gone with tev exceptions and the nation Is closing the door upon the heroism of the past and must now turn and face without this in a future which I 1 cannot know an I 1 you cannot know and only god himself can foretell so in 1023 we of this day and gen i ave and grown great for GO 60 long 3 sears ears in the visible pres ence of the heroes of 1801 5 now the heroes of tl it at time and no finer smarter fighting men ever marched arched in at the double quick are bent and stooped tired by the long march al most ready to break ranks for the last bivouac but for tre next 60 years of the nation tl eie Is a new her ism the I 1 of tl it e boys in khaki may the coming gei erat ioni thrive and grow great in their vis nis ble presence mav may tl e r visible presence be as in is that of the men of and the men of 1861 the loftiest loft lest tribute we cin besto v toda the I 1 erol cally birned tribute fasi fast toned in deliberate conviction out of unclouded thought feltl er sla dovel doNvel by remorse nor made biln by fancies Is the commitment of tl Is Ile republic public to an advancement never made before sal sat I 1 prisident hard ng at tl it e burial of tie tl e v n dead at arlington if I achievement Is a cheriel ed pride at home if our unselfishness among nations Is ah all anve e wish it to be and ours Is a helpful example in the world then let us give our influence and strength n th yea of our walrat ons ind com convictions lations to put m i kind n a little higl er plane exi em biting and ex exalting exaltina altin n with ith vars vv ar 8 d ds 5 and depress ng traced et bat baided red from the s age of righteous ri on |