Show FROM THESE HONORED DEAD WE TAKE INCREASED DEVOTION When Abraham Lincoln stood on the battlefield of Gettysburg Gettys Gettysburg Get Get- tys and delivered the the- speech that has now become classic he stated once and for all the real purpose of Memorial Memorial Mem Mem- orial Day and the abiding lesson that should be taught on that day when we honor the Blue and the Gray Those few plain words fraught with the humility and simplicity of a truly great man made great in tribulation and agony of spirit have come down to us and will go down through the t e ages as as' the true definition of the only living memorial that can ever be erected to those we love and honor It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that us-that that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of their devotion that devotion that we here highly highly high high- ly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain And they will have died in vain so far as we we weare are concerned if all aU that we take to the cemetery are the flowers and flags to decorated their graves gra Think l I When those last few straggling remnants of two once gallant armies stumble through our streets bravely brave brave- ly trying to pull back bent shoulders and to hold high bowed white heads will we who respectfully remove out our hats as the flag goes by do so only because of courtesy and out of consideration for convention or well we too fiercely resolve resolve resolve re re- re- re solve that these dead and the dead who have died in two i succeeding wars have not died In vain Will we remember that these men met problems their fathers did not know I I and recognized their duty though tradition had not pointed it out The message of Memorial Day is that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom this freedom this year and next year and through the years that come just as much muchas as in the year 1863 And Freedom is a growing living thing Will we this Memorial Day in the year 1924 continue continue continue con con- to recognize wrongs Tongs even though they are as traditional traditional traditional as were the wrongs Tongs the Civil War corrected P |