Show Re Reasons S 4 f c for Remembrance C t wm 16 rBy r LEONARD A A. BARRETT E N CEMETERIES both small and large large will assemble groups of or patriotic citizens for tor the purpose of ot d decorating decorating oratIng ing the graves of ot those who fell tell In War war Brave veterans they thel were Some fought with weapons which today seem to us rather crude The arm army rifle of ot the Twentieth century Is II an Immense Improvement over the gun of ot the Civil war Rapidly firing machine guns poison polson gas submarines torpedoes andall and andall andall all the Implements of ot modern warfare were to them unknown Like all the theara wars ara of ot history the Civil war was fought by young men Th The e following table Indicates the ages agel o othe of ot f the Unionist soldiers who fought 1 In Inthe Inthe fe e the Civil war Fourteen years of or age and n under der 2111 fifteen years of t ag age e and under sixteen years an and under seventeen se years an and under eighteen years and under under under un un- un- un der 11 1438 twenty-one twenty years and under under un un- der twenty five and over a four forty and over The total number of ot enlisted men meD was wa s three fourths of or whom were o under twenty one years of or age age The e power lower which hurled slavery In from Its throne was young men dreaming dreams by patriots' patriots graves gra We lVe cannot think of Decoration day without the portrait of ot Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coin presenting Itself vividly before e us What That this country might have hare suffered sot suf without his leadership e Good Providence knows The purpose e of ot the war war as Lincoln conceived t It e was not to free the sla slave ve although that was Will a t factor In to the case th the e I principal reason renson for the war was Will t to o save the Union The war of ot 1770 0 I taught the world worM to know us the war lot lof 1812 taught us to know our ourselves s The first won for us our Independence the latter our self respect and aDd solid arity Plutarch writes The fortune of ot all good men Dlen Is that their virtue rises g In glory after their death and that th the tha e envy which any evil man may have hav e conceived against them never su sur p. p vives the envious So do we remember ber those whose supreme sa sacrifice e ha has g cemented Into one one our United Unite d States of ot America All honor to their memory memol as we place liace the laurel wrest wreath h alike upon the graces graes graves of ot the khaki th the e blue and the gray i O C by Western Union |