Show f WHAT DO DOVE WE VE REI I REMEMBER ER Sunday Sunda r May l is Ib Memorial l Day Monday l w will be officially observed This is one of our two particularly na national na I holidays The rIlle other is the Fourth of July On the t we look forward we boast triumphantly of what the country is and prophesy vigorously what it is to be But today we look 1001 r backward 1 We Ve re think not of ourselves but of those who died lied fori for i us What That do we remember Nothing of much importance unless we remember that the nation demanded their sacrifice for m IDEALS The Civil V War Var HI was a war for an idea idea for for the the idea of idea of free free- said aid Lincoln cannot exist permanently 1 lone dom This nation slave half and half It did not it bought with blood and a tears the right to exist permanently free In the file of 1 1918 1914 1918 so far as we were concerned was likewise likewise likewise like like- wise wise a war for fOl an air idea idea for for the idea nice that a nation nations w would uld 1 better i not exist than brook interference with the moral principle onlie on which 1 it t is is founded The lie 1 issue was far less cut clear-cut than in the Civil War laI tar more involved both bolh with economics and with fear but when we called on our men to fight and if necessary to die I for foI the country we persuaded ourselves rightly or wrongly that defend the national honor but to tomake they w were eIe summoned not to make the world safe for fOl democracy f Any forgetfulness of that basis persuasion is dangerous War Var is an all evil and no man is a hero merely because he died in war war The lire question Is is what he lie died for And n there is no unintelligence un un- intelligence or or meanness so profound as that of an individual or 01 ora a a. a nation which accepts a sacrifice without l knowing or carin caring why it is made If on oil Memorial Day we remember only that sons an and brothers have given their lives for fOl us without seeking to realize exactly for what they gave their lives then truly as far as we weare are concerned those men have died lied in vain If we take Memorial l Day as an opportunity to say or evento even evento the dead the day has not fulfilled fulfill fulfill- about to think pleasant things thing ed its purpose Perhaps if instead of l Memorial al Day we called it Dedication Da Day we should be near the truth of what it ought to mean The Themen men Inen of titi whom hem we c speak whose graves ti we decorate we cannot r. r 4 dg again ails dedicate to service Ourselves we can dedicate and it li liwe t we we really remember we will I I I I |