| Show gand virginia infantry a six gun battery batter y on el h 1 ovate d ground overpowered powe red tile alio gunners and captured the guns A C cadet mounted A a caisson and waved tile the academy flag and how the triumphant vim IN um pliant youngsters r yelled I 1 they lost 8 killed and 10 40 wounded in that t h a t wild w 11 d charge truly tho the american Is tho tha same lighting antl man from froin t r one generation to another memorial day will see both the and the gray in line marching arching in its as bravely fit as of yore nut alas alag the steps will be feebler and ranks 7 thinner herewith Is 1 11 AN pictured maj giles I 1 H cook who lias has v just left the white V k house after inviting president coolidge to attend the commencement exercise of df tile tho lawrenceville industrial school of virginin virginia lie he Is said bald to he be tho the only survivor of tile tho twelve niem ment tiers hera of the file staff that N surrendered with gen robert K H lea to general grant nt at app po 0 mattox m a 11 0 x court house alouse uncle jack Arin armstrong strong of windsor I 1 A S 0 eighty years of age Is said to bo be V k tile only survivor of the first south carolina olina infantry C S A the oldest member of tile G A 11 in wd new england Is henry D lay of west newbury X Al maas alciss who celebrated his hundredth tile the otherl other 45 birthday day with his good by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN EMOlt IAL DAY is with us its again and again allwood nil bood americans will fittingly observe this national hollday and holy lay illy for it Is 11 holy illy 11 in a sense it Is the most comprehensive of nil our day of national observance for memorial day hit lias us its tho the united states of oc Anteri cit litts grown its iia tho the american people have grown memorial day Is now hallowed by moro than fifty years of observance think what eliut it hns now como come to mean to its can you not rca beai into it thing of f the spirit of every one of our days of national observance surely on oil memorial day tin an amerl can can mako make good resolutions as fittingly as on oil now years day anil and with much to inspire the iho birt birthdays gldays oi of lincoln anti and washington tire aie closely to it arbor day ath its memorial trees and its of ability to posterity Is closely in touch haster day and memorial INTe morial day are inseparably bound together lit la many loving wid trusting hearts and memorial day fit Us hand in glove with ping flag day with independence cf day with ith armistice day there Is something of day in it and ant ioni s ething of the lie christmas rood good will on Me memorial mortill day in short we weep its as we vu strew lowers flowers because the dead tire ro our kin hin wa w thrill with pride that they so nobly died we rejoice that they are lit in gods keep hig we assemble not to rekindle ires fires not to exult over tile defeated not to glorify war nr or to exalt to ilvo thanks of tile providence that tins lias watched over our nation mul to pledge ourselves anew to the cause of liberty humanity and justice to dhigh our littlon Is dedicated day slavs weans to us till that old glory means hats ofil along the he street there comee A lloro of bugles a ruffle of drums A flann of color beneath the sky hats oft off tho the vlas flag to Is by niue blue and white and cei calmson nison it shines over the lie steel att el tipped ordered lines rats hats the colors colora before us ua ny hut but more than the flag Is passing by sea fights and land nights erm grani and gi bleat efa t vought to make anti and to save the state weary marches and sinking ships Ofie cheers ers of 0 victory on dying lips idys days ot of plenty and years of peace march of a strong lands swift inar increase age iqual justice right and law stately honor and reverent awe a e sign of a nation treat great and strong to ward her people from foreign wrong wire wife uy by nia ills sine aim L surrounded by calill 1 1 dren grandchildren pride ant and glory and honor all live I lve in the colors to stand or fall all moreover memorial day will bo be observed tit at the very ends of the earth for tit at the very ends of the lie earth carth tire ore hurled our american soldier lend lead in tile eight american ar cemeteries in europe flowers will be strown strewn by toying loving hands and tribute paid by clo eloquent quent tongues in france in belgium in england diverse indeed were vero the tongues and colors that matlo made up the ranks of tho A EL 13 P and far away indeed rest sonic some of these yanks sergeant Demos Demost theno liene durdelli Dur dells who died for liberty under the flag of the united T d states was borne by men inen in the tin uniform lie find worn to tho the lands of his filth fathers erst adiong the isles of greece in the mediterranean an and there interred with nil all the honors of war do you think that grave will be neglected memorial day sam sall soo aloo was born lit in san sail francisco the world war found him in china married and the father of three children sain traveled many thousand nilles to enlist in the rainbow and to ret get to tile front it at iero en ills journey ended one MAO hellish night in july of 1918 undo sam 9 am tit at the request of ills his relatives sent the body billeg by land and by sen sea that their Anie american rican soldier might rest near the graves or oc its ills ancestors ancestor 4 at ila sl gi Cl cliften itten in shin ling just beyond tile the south gate till tal stil san S i shen do you think the grave or of S sam 1111 soo aloo will be neglected memorial ray day there Is n 1 I thrill in ench each of the pictures tit res herewith new markot ov over er again by the united 1111 and the cabets cadets of tho the vir military re enacts thi tl battle of new market in the fail famous lous valley fought abay its IB 1801 idere the alie confederates under breckenridge defeated tile the union forces under siegel there Is probably no secondary battle of tile the civil war of wore more importance had siegel won leo could not have spared the awn to check ills his advance without exposing to immediate tind perhaps inevitable ca capture liture the fact that new market could lie be re enacted with the applause of thousands of spectators shows how thoroughly tit tie e wounds of tile civil war it are re heated healed the mimic battle also recalls the glorious Klor glor lous part of the cadets cabets in the 1804 4 battle there were of thern them nil all under sixteen under colonel ship one of their professors they stood i steady as veterans under tinder galling artillery alre then they charged with the and great grandchildren what chit changes have been wrought in tit the e span of ills life I 1 the political world lins practically been ninde made over the industrial and commercial world has been revolutionized tho the whole scheme of living tins lias been changed the american people have marched mar clied from the mississippi sis sippi to the lie pacific when henry D lay was waa born in 1821 there were only twenty four stars on the flag tile the western boundary of tile the united states was aa the rocky mountains and the alie red lied river missouri and louisiana were the only two states west of the mississippi no angures are at hand for the united confederate veterans whose general commander Is gen Wil william liftin D B Il aldane louisville lcy ky but the figures for the lie grand army of tile the republic whose conin commander iander in calef js Is gaylord gaylard M binl gaber van wert 0 tell a saddening story the penk peak of tile was in 1890 lit in 1921 the membership had dwindled to in 1892 it was the decrease in C irand grand army posts 1921 2 was to so tills this year there will be fewer veterans in blue and in gray to cheer and more groves graves to cover with blossoms but praise god we enn can strew flowers allice alike for grant and lee for sherman anti and jackson for sheridan Sli erldon and st stuart uart and for their men with love and tears for the blue tears and love for tho the gray two new graves there tire are this memorial day to which the thoughts of the american people will instinctively turn the grave of warren gamaliel and the grave of woodrow Vo wilson each was stricken down in the service of ills country each deserves well ell of ills his country out of the blue and the gray came calne tile khaki oh that the thousands who wish it could strew flowers aver over there I 1 but too far away are flanders r fields upon his grave to lay my roses and forget me nots bots my rose rosemary inary and bay A scarlet poppy on my breast will speak memorial dayl doubtless the quintessence of the american peoples thoughts rn on memo alil day will be in the 0 offerings at tho the national in arlington tile the tomb of our unknown soldier we athor gathor g him to the tha nations breast within tho the shadows of 0 the capitol of the towering shaft that honors washington wa h exquisite the great father and of the t he exquisite toos ament to lincoln the th martyred marty red |
