Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-05-30 | Page 13 | Union Army Passing Fast Their Achievements Many

Union Army Passing Fast 4 t Their Achievements Many By JOHN B INMAN ln Commander Chief of the brand rand Army of the Republic SpecIal Memorial Day Message for tor or NE NEA Service and Standard Standard Examiner ExamIner SPRINGFIELD Ill May 29 29 Our treat greet national funeral day comes tomorrow with Its tied sorrow and joy and regret that so many of or out our comrades have e reached the rivers river's brink and 0 crossed crossel over But Dut there Is rejoIcIng for us too In that their achievements achie stand out in la boll bold relief reller on the tir escutcheon es escutcheon cutcheon of our country's great treat ness ness where flowers may possIbly be strewn upon the wate waters In re- re re remembrance of those comrades comrade who sleep beneath the sad ad sea sen waves It appears to me as command command ln erIn chief o ot of the great Grand Arm Army ot of the Republic bile that we should be proud and happy to co co with other ex soldIer societies but not forgetting that the men ot or the theCO's COs CO's made the day possible We Wo feel a a deep sense of gratl gratitude tude tucle to our youns younger r compatrIots who are only too glad to concede leadershIp to us Boys DOYS of ot the There Ther are but survivors or of the union army of the civil war Our average age is 83 and wo we weare weare are crossIng the tho great divide at atthe atthe atthe the rate of or nearly per year ear Not until over the tho last comrade have been renounced those path pathetic words Taps are sounded lights ate are out the tho soldier sleeps I shall hall come the greatest glory clory of the Grand Army of o the Republic I mean no disrespect to any I comrade of any war when I say we had no predecessor nor will wo we have lla a successor 4 S 4 r AL t- t tJOHN JOHN D 0 INMAN We know the work we were set setto setto setto to do We W know lenow the tha task we were ghen gh en to perform and we know lenow we performed It ft We Ve have taken our place In the hIstory of this republic and now as we shall shan go down lown through the valley of the shadows and out Into the everlasting e sunshine we te be leech be-leech as did lid they ot of old Let thy servants depart in peace And may the principles principle for which these boys boy contended go godown godown down the ages building for thema them a monument that shall shan span this Intervening space which we e call time and rest on tile the towers tower or of two great eternities one that was one that is to be