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Show . ,... ..... ....- t The Day of Remembrance Memorial Day is the .Nation's Sabbath, though :: often soiled with sacrilegious- forgetfulness and sport. The nation that forgets its debt to its builders build-ers and saviors is flirting with consequences more to be feared than those which arise from a forgetting of monetary debts to creditor nations. The purpose of this day is not merely to remem- ; ber the dead, but to remind the living. There are now three wars within the memory of most living Americans. They were wars with great human causes as a background. The consequences of the earliest war which most of us can remember was the dissolution of slavery as an institution of this land. The second was for the removal of the last vestige of European tyranny from the western hemisphere. The third was to succor Anglo-Saxon civilization from grave peril. -We are to remember on this Memorial Day the great occasions when our, nation lifted her hand in 1 behalf of assaulted right.' We are to remember the men of our nation who in the Civil War and the' t Spanish-American War and the World War represented repre-sented the might and the purpose of our people. In all the cemeteries of the land the survivors of these I groups will pass from grave to grave with the simple sim-ple honors for the dead. They remember. Therefore, let us be reminded, not merely to re-mmber re-mmber the dead, but that we are debtors, that there, is nothing we have of basic social blessing that was not bought for us, freely passed on to us, at the most of other men's sacrifice. This is the purpose of Memorial Day. The dead are forever secure in their ; glory; "It is for us the living," said Lincoln; it is : ; for the living to be reminded of our spiritual kinship I with them. ' ...A.fc.t.Aj,j.....j..,.i.j-t.,fc.-n..fc...j...-i...........t..f..t..,..t..t... t t m m i n.ii iiitiiti |