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Show THE LITTLE BRONZE BUTTON Veterans of the Armies of the 0s ) Have Right to Be Proud of Glorloui Emblem, The world Is too much with us, therefore It is well that we pause n moment nnd let memory stir the pulse with thoughts of things that have been. After these many years only a handful of actual participants In the strugglo of the 'GOs uro left. The little bronze button of tho G. A. R. U less frequently noted on our streets. The men who wear it nre old und feeble, but not the less proud of their 'decoration the emblem of their Le-tglon Le-tglon of Hortor. The men who wear It Iwero not cowurds nor slackers. Dearer to them than the right to llye. Was the right to die In their country'! cause, i Memorial day U particularly thplr day; the day wo aro In duty bound to remember their service In the nation's na-tion's extremity. Wo owe thorn a debt of honor and gratltudo doubly Insistent Insis-tent because of our moro vivid reall-ration reall-ration of tho perils of war and the sncrlfltcs they rnado to preeerrti the Onion Inviolate. |