Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-05-30 | Page 5 | Memorial Day for Living

MEMORIAL DAY DAV FOR LIVING We didn't hue have Memorial day in Abraham Lincoln's Lincoln lifetime so 10 sono sono no graceful word ot of his on that institution has come down to us But Dut Lincoln's Gettysburg ad address ad- ad address address dress dress It If read aright and reverent reverent- reverently reverently ly Is the greatest Memorial day address ever delivered In the thc English tongue I Unfortunately Memorial day oh ob oh Ben servance has hIlS grown hazy with the passage of ot years Only to a lim lim- limIted limIted limited extent Is It In any sense cense a memorial day Even en the making ot of two new generations ot of o graves In every cemetery In the land as two additional wars have taken theIr toll ot of national sacrifices has not quite saved the day from almost complete alteration of ot its Ils orIginal character For Isn't It true that since most ot of us have assumed that MemorIal Memorial Memorial ial day belonged to the dead sol sol- sol soldiers diers we have forgotten that the obligations of ot the day fall rall upon living patriots As Lincoln said at Gettysburg It ItIs for Cor us the living rather to be dedicated here to the un- un unfinished un unfinished finished work which they have thus tar far so nobly c carried on It is rather for tor us to be here bore dedicated to the great task remaining be- be before be before fore tore that us-that us that from these honored dead we take Increased devotion to that cause for Cor which they here here gave the last full tull measure ot of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have haye died In vain that this nation shall have haye a new birth ot of freedom It Is for tor us the living said the great president It Is up to us as IS we would put It today Memorial day is 19 ours not the possession of ot gener genes generations generations ot of dead soldiers They have done their bit and left us ours todo to todo todo do that these dead shall not have died In vain Dying for tor ones one's country Isn't the most difficult ot of all sacrifices oven onn though It gains easily given applause A much more difficult task Is the ours ours the living from day dayto dayto dayto to da day to such purpose that th t this shall be a country the better worth dying for Cor when the time comes cemes that the last full measure of ot de de- de devotion de Is due