Show LEST WE FORGET nation does well to honor tho the memory of the founder of its glorious state of independence 11 we e toiley lived in a colony ground IP town down by unjust laws our passion for national life secretly and tragically burning if 1 washington had foiled find lied died tn lit miln for tin the cause AvI lit in fact lie nought brought to lasting triumph then for poor sentimental liu hu lie he would shine with a luster greater than now Is fits hi writes joyce kilmer attmer lit n the new york times ills causti triumphed the dream became a reality and therefore lost tile the chirm of the dream washington lying on his bed in ills honored old age his hopes realized Is a noble figure hut but he lucks lachs the draina dramatic tic appeal of washington bidding farewell to his children nt at tile the foot of tile the gallows by some strange perversity of human nature the cause we c consider ro und anti Is always a lost cause tile the names most deeply loved nrc are those ot of tile he fallen lenders leaders hoso met with defeat Itu lort bruce tind robert wll wit laim Wa wallace lince and kl that lair fair and fatal king icing diaries I 1 ind and ills perse persecuted and uncrowned heirs children of union sold soldiers lers though we may be our hearts beat wore inore quiet tit nt the lie thought of 0 lee than alinn nt at the thought it df grant we rise ach the band plays the star span aled 13 anner i 1 but hu we rise and shout it plays dixie dirle and it must also ho be acknowledged lint it tragic death endears a statts man to the lie generations that follow him if you are a great lender leader tin and want to be suro sure of poster itys affection see that your cause falls then the conquerors will all legislate the honoring of your and that lint will mill make your fame secure but if your cause succeeds succeed i lion hen tit nt toast sc see e that your death Is in widen sudden and in lent gle give the world it drilma a legend washington at york t tomp lie captured rc scouts and ili ru 4 till 11 end ct to on oil our shores itis it not fort width it to lo honor ills memo r Y W 4 1 g of the allej tl leJ re white and blue Is litte nutH 1 perils and so 0 o we e take fur grunt grant rd we MO forget the ho hideous dunfor thingers du th ngor ingers through shirli wo i c pit passed ased only some hundred undred li and twos two s ore aurs ngo ago we ve till take for granted our nationality our freedom and ana the he fearless worrior tile tha C who iho gie gave them to us when wi of washington ns the fitcher of ills counti Y ve e to do so with a laugh as it the phrase were empty rhet rhetoric orle instead of sublime truth llego liege means more to us than lexington and remembering cavell we ite give no thought to jane mccrea we ve may well thank odd clod that tile the war of american independence lins has not tho the glanmor of battles fought in vain aln that our freedom Is no lost cause that linto halo Is not eliat of a martyr whose life and death were ere uni availing to those who look tit nt tho the worlds events in true historical per ejective without sentimentality and with lovo love of justice and freedom in their breasts the he american revolution fills the most encouraging page in the chronicle of the centuries but for most of us it Is only in times of stress I 1 like the present that we can come to an actual sense of our exceptional privileges to ft a realization of the radiant truth of the stories we road read in n our history book in school this year tho the declaration of independence takes on a clearer significance sf we know ns as wo we ild did not in bygone years aliat it means mean to ile be free nd a id independent states absolved forever from all allegiance tillo glance to foreign powers and so till ahli year birthday Is no routine holiday but a day of solemn yet joyful commemoration a lay day on which we honor with full fall hearts lint him who made us its a tin nation tion the he whose sword cut the bonds of our thralldom th abl state statesman who bade us avoiding entangling alliances go our free way an independent republic no nation 8 sycophant no nations tool with malice toward none said greatest successor with charity for all it was a summing up of own political creed no lost enuse cause however glorious with the blood of martyrs seems today so noble ns as me s still triumphant cause of Amer american lenn independence nn nip modern liuro hero fighting overseas li 14 today so dear to us its as our fount founder ler and preserver and to ta lit hla s ex amalea and hla his counsels we cannot look for gul guidance dance and look in vain |