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Show MEMORIAL DAY. With music and orations and tender ceremonies ceremo-nies and touching memories, Memorial day was celebrated in Sajt Lake on Monday. Nearly half a century has slipped by since the first call to arms, and more than forty years since the close of the great conflict between the states. It was a mighty war, and there was a bitterness and acrimony developed de-veloped that took many of the intervening years to assuage. It was a fight for principles which each side in the conflict held clear to their hearts. And in the annual celebration of the heroic dexb of those mighty American armies there lias grown up an understanding of the merits of the contest, and the old animosities have been buried, and the republic' re-public' endures. The whole people lay aside their usual business i, . .... to do honor to the heroes of those trying years, and to recall the deeds of valor done under the trying circumstances. Everywhere throughout the nation the day was given to honoring those soldiers of the civil war. There were nearly three million men in the Union army. Of these 2,159,793 were under 21 years of age at the time of enlistment. It is hard to realize in the old and grizzled forms of the veterans vet-erans of this day that when they were under 21 years of age, they were out on the battlefield, fighting fight-ing to preserve the Union and to perpetuate liberty and .maintain this government of the people. They represented the flower of the nation's young manhood, man-hood, and now that the survivors have grown eld, it is hard to realize the terrific sacrifices which they endured. It is therefore proper that wc should honor the survivors and pay our tribute of respect and love for that mighty army of young men who fought and gave their lives that the republic might live. And from it all may we learn the awful cost to the world of war. What a vast army of poets, philosophers, phil-osophers, teachers, preachers and noble citizenship sacrificed themselves on the altar of war! How the progress of the nation and of the world was arrested ar-rested by their sacrifice! |