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Show 0 - j SORROWING AMERICAN ! WOMEN GET MESSAGE j OF DEEPEST SYMPATHY PARIS, May 28. Sisterly affection and deepest sympathy for the . Women of America whose husbands, cons, brothers or sweethearts fell during dur-ing the war, is expressed In a message received by the Paris Memorial Day committee from the Society of French homes, the members of which are French women who know the horrors of war and the heartaches that attend at-tend it. The message, which was inspired by the imminence of Memorial Day and the arrival of many sorrowing American women here, follows: "Dear sisters of America: At tho sad hour when those'dearest to you , received your last embrace as they parted from you and left to offer their lives that right and liberty might triumph, the hearts of French wives, mothers and sweethearts were with you because they had passed through that anguish which later was to become yours, "At the hour of victory, dear beloved friends, our thoughts again went out to you in a hymn of joy and gratitude. We smiled through our tears at those who were spared and prayed the Divine word 'peace' might forever for-ever reign in our hearts. "And now, dear sisters, you begin to come to us on your sacred pilgrimage. pil-grimage. You come to kneel before the graves of your beloved, the heroic defenders of our cause, whose mortal remains rest under the soil of France .our France which is so proud to cradle their sacred bodies- How vell we understand the emotions and thoughts that sleep in your hearts as you dwell on numberless recollections of those dear ones who are no mere. "Our Society of French Homes longs to aid you in every vay across the tedious stages of the sad Journey which Iead6 you to the last resting place of your dead. May you feel that which we French women wish so much to feel that our lost ones are invisible but not wholly beyond our ken. United In this Immortal hope, we offer our faithful affection." o |