Show OUR FLAG IS STILL THERE editorial from CoIl colliers leis young voices scores and score of 0 them together clear and high and innocently ly wise the childrens song lifts thrilling through the hall when down the street comes canies flying all proud against the breeze my heart and hand band salute thee dear flag of 0 liberty 0 forest prairie mountain all proud against the sky 0 flag for which men labor 0 flag for which men die one does not see johnnys starry gaze and earnest face that wilful young loafer as his voice lilts ailts up the tune but those others of whom he sings weary mothers mathei s tending their children and hurrying to get dinner ready hired men rolling roiling out at 4 a in to milk the cows clerks plodding through long hours ot of figures to make the books balance grimy stevedores sweating the last pt her pargo aboard a waiting ship the children sing their song but those clustering processions professions process ions of 0 a workday morning that gather toward school doors and factory gates and office elevators are living it in lonely country graveyards from new england to alaska in famous tombs at mount vernon and riverside oyster bay and springfield in the torn earth of french fields and philippine jungles ju and in the long tended rows that make a shrine of arlington whether r known or unknown lie he those who have lived it the flag fievin hew in th belr hearts when they were alive and above them in their death so will it be with us tor for our flag is still there |