Show spirit of the day it was no accident that the united states which lias bas fought fewer wars than thain most great countries wits the first to institute a ble memorial morial day foi its war dead nor wits was it tin nn accident that it was instituted just after a war which represented a moral uprising against slavery andu and a fervent determination to keep keel the nation united willi high objects went a high emotion A lias has a special feeling for those of its sons who have died in battle A people which has given hundreds of thousands of young men for such causes as were at stake in the civil war instinctively desires some means of honoring the men and the causes together new york world |