Show I 1 in ho 11 em ory 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 a day ts Is with us ua MEMORIAL again may 80 30 this date marks the sixty first year that the grand army of the republic has observed the day in honor and memory of comrades who gave their lives that that nation might live the very fact that more than three score years have passed since general logan issued his famous order ae no 11 creating the day must cause us to remember that the comrades of the grand army who still survive must be aged men all of them well beyond four score years in many places the day seem to have taken on gi a new naw and different significance as a new an and d younger generation takes charge and carries out its I 1 own ideas of what constitutes a proper observance of the day but where the grand army Is still able to carry on or where its wishes are observed it if will be conducted in the quiet and dignified manner that has ever marked its keeping of the I 1 da adny Y this day ts Is in memory of the vast number who gave their lives la in defense of the flag and to preserve this union let us then at the appointed time gather round their sacred remal remains ns and garland tho passionless mounds above hem with the choicest flowers of springtime let ug as raise above them the dear old lag flag that they saved from dishonor let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and asi as those whom they have left am among ong us a sacred charge upon a nation nat long s gratitude the soldiers andi and sallers sa llort widow and orphan so should shoula it be on all memorial days let the young give close attention to whatever rany be done or said by the vete veterans rains themselves tor for all will be memories stored in the the pages faie that men call history it will give them power some day to thrill young hearts to say that they saw and heard men of the grand army armyon of the republic as they marched and spoke in some ony day of the long ago their memorial day |