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Show Memorial Day I TV A 0NDAY next wI11 De Memorial day. A slg- - 1 VI niflcant notice has been served in this city, to the effect that the Grand Army veterans V will not parade this year. The weight of the !, years has become too heavy for some of them. They are passing rapidly now. Considering the few still remaining here, a mighty percentage of those who helped last year to drape with flowers - the graves of comrades, will this year be waiting i in the cemeteries for that service to be rendered I them, where "With an equal splendor t, The morning sun-rays fall, With a touch Impartially tender I On the blossoms blooming for all, , Under the sod and the dew J Waiting the judgement day, ! Broidered with gold the Blue, Mellowed with gold and Grey." !j ' The day should be sacredly kept by the people of Salt Lake. j No nation long survives that forgets its heroic dead. The story cannot be too often told to the youth of a land, how, when their fathers were in the morning of their manhood and life was filled with sweetness and with hope, they went out and offered all that men can offer for native land; that thousands went down to death on the battle fields, that thousands more died in hospitals and prisons; that thousands more returned home smitten with wounds, hardships and disease; that now every burial place in the land holds their graves, and that those graves sanctify and make sacred the ground in which they sleep. That they do not need any poor service which the living can bestow, but the living for their own sakes need to perform that service to keep their own hearts in accord with all that is high In citizenship, all that is sacred in patriotism. "The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo, No more on life's parade shall see i , That brave and fallen few: , On Fame's eternal camping ground, Their silent tents are spread, And glory guards with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead." |
