| Show MEMORIAL DAY AGAIN Once More the Nation Honors Those Who Died That Their Country Might Forever Live HE LIE gray and dwindling THE T ranks of the Grand Army r of the Republic march 1 once more to la lay fiet 1 veis fio eison tl'S eis on the graves ves of those who died that the nation might live and to keep lJ e In youthful hearts fl the fires of patriotism which burned so brightly In In view of ot the hurrying commercial age uge In which we live who shall shaH sn say that this latter lotter service of or these grizzled veterans Is less Important than the one which they performed in the morning of ot life It Is a n mournful thing to watch the Inevitable depletion of their ranks caused by the slow stow unfailing procession procession sion slon of the years cars In the last Just year eor for which figures are available the Grand Grund Army lost by death members members- four times as mart as ns were known to have been killed In the Union army at atthe atthe atthe the battle buttle of or Get Get- Yet there m j is is a 11 consolation m x which should not be forgotten These veterans fought the m most 0 s t successful Ii war wor the world world has hns t f ever known Wars It f 0 I l. l ff which change the Jt t u allegiance of ot prow prow- provInces ri StI i Inces laces or add odd to or I subtract from the dominions of princes are cora com 1 non mou enough Of 01 a.- a. f wars which at nt once sr r- r liberated a n race and saved sayed a nation there tins has been but one That unique distinction attaches to the tho four years years' strife In which these veterans bore tJore their part port and ond the glory of that unprecedented unprecedented un un- achievement gilds their graying hair |
