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Show j TT NEEDS no belittling of the .heroism of our World war i veterans to give full measure t of honor to the men who died to cement the republic and gen- erous gratitude to the handful 4 of survivors. It must needs be an almost impersonal honor. , ? for to most of os the Civil war j I is not even a memory. Our i f tribute to the men who fell in the World war and to the mul- titude of their surviving com- i rades is direct and personal. Our gratitude is poignant our 4 sorrow is a living actuality. |