Show remembrance remembran 1 I I 1 P o S PL d 0 N AIE day ye wo remember ON 0 and remembering judge ourselves A nation like nn an individual la Is the suin of all the preceding char acter that lias has contributed to it there Is the best and the worst both made profitable by a just conscience which recognizes and decides between them the light of high endeavor never goca out ont the torch passes from generation to gen generation cratton borno borne safely amid nield tu and pence peace amid onslaught adf and reverence civilization through tho the service ot of its better members ceases never today tho the nation stands on the golden hill hillcrest crest of which only the boldest had dared to dream and looks back along the road A long magnificent road gloriously alive ellve with the figures of bravo brave men and brave women of loyal hearts of undiscouraged purpose or of fearing manhood it finds as it looks and reflects that thai the ninny many little roads which begin on the margin of national history have conio come together and now for ahse anny years have flowed in ono one broad and over ever broader highway it perceives a strange intimacy of blue and gray and dini dininger nier figures in tatters or in soiled red coats it sees aked pl plain aln people ennobled by service who gave to civil life a little something more of integrity and flu fineness eness it t sees oil all sorts and conditions of men ind and of women and of little children and it notices that there la is tills this common thing among them that they al all I 1 face fac 0 forward to the future which now Is a ours F finally it recognizes recoe with gratitude and promise blint somewhere in this and diversely born people there thare Is tho the binding loyalty of a common service there Is a flag seen tiny against a speck speak of green and white itte which flutters above the alio bivouac of arlington there Is a wreath invisibly adorning the homo home of every family whose fathers and mothers lived worthily that tho the race might bo be nobly preserved thero there Is a falth faith which enriched by nit till these lives Is the deathless guerdon of a people that dares not nor wishes to forget today we remember there la Is a heritage preciously formed by the lives and deaths of many millions they are the past i which seeded tho the present wo we lionor honor the them in by reliving their service or shame them it our sense of citizenship la Is Ign ignoble I 1 |