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Show I ;' 1 H "THE DAY." WHERE the loyal Britisher always drank to "The King," and the excitable Frenchman H to his beloved "Rcpublique," the proud H Prussian's sinister watchword was "The Day." H Tlianks to rank on rank of the whitest-hearted H bravest soldiers ever led to slaughter, Prussia's boast- H cd "Day" never had its dawning. Instead, wc saw B the coming of that great November eleventh. That H indeed, is "The Day." No other can mean so much. H For that daybreak, the strong men of all the conti- H nents gave their lives. Its every second has been con- H secrated in the blood of some mother's brave son. B Millions who did not die were, for its sake led through H worse than death. The terrible scars on their bodies H are as nothing to the frightful scars on their souls. H If, two years ago, November eleventh sent us as H a nation raving mad with joy, what must it have H meant to these soldier boys? What must it still M mean to them today? If it is to them more than H Thanksgiving day, Merry Christmas or even the glor- M ious Fourth, it is also more to us. Without the dawn- H ing of that November morning, there would have B ' been nomore Thanksgiving day, no more Christmas, M y and no more July Fourth. They live today because M there was an Armistice Day. It will stand a hallowed H mark on the calendar of man when all others have M fad d from human recollection. Proudly, yet rcv- H cre.'.tly, wc salute "The Day." |