| Show glorious ca onous LL those who have visited tile the ALL battlefield of gettysburg know its fascination first as aa one drives about the forty square miles of battlefield his interest la Is in the lie monuments the beautt beautiful ful markers und and statues erected by 0 he o various states of the union in memory meinord of their dead on this battlefield then the extent of the field impresses one and he endeavors to reconstruct the battle lines of the union and confederate t troops A cloud possessed th ahn hollow field the gathering battles battle smoky shield athwart the gloom the th light lightning flashed and through the cloud some horsemen dashed and from the th heights height the thunder pealed Abo above the bayonets mixed and crossed men saw a gray gigantic ghost receding through the battle cloud and heard across the tempest loud the death cry of a nation bostl even better than will thompsons Thomp sons famous poem does bret II Il artes john burns of gettysburg paint the picture 0 t the battle and it was waa terrible on the right raged for hours the heady fight thundered the tha batt erys double bau bass difficult music for men to face while on the left where now the graves undulate like the living waves that all that day unceasing up to the pits pita the johnnies kept round shot plowed the upland glades sown bown with bullets reaped with blades blade shattered fences here and there tossed their splinters in the air lr the very trees were stripped and nd bars bare and then above the roar of battle the immortal words the brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract the world will little note nor long remember what we say may here hut but it con can never forget what they did here surely the might eight of this battlefield and of valley forpe of lexington of ticonderoga shoud abold help in the making of good americans americana I 1 ba ta wa a to ra ft tea ft to ft spot forever famous 71 7 1 on november 19 1863 president deni abraham lincoln tood stood on the battlefield of gettysburg Getty burg just juat where the shaft haft of this national monument rises on thle this spot the great emancipator made his hi immortal speech WA ca lea ici WA ca ta ie ft WA lea lesson of memorial dulce et decorum est pro patria morl a sweet and proper thing it Is to die for ones country thus reads the eternal epitaph of the hero dead in Arling tons great bivouac as elsewhere but the sweetest and best time to die for ones country Is when life has been fulfilled and the he fruits of the task are ripe for the enrichment of that granary of ideal and achievement we call the notion nation memorial day Is a day of experience it Is a good thing to be thoughtful of the past better still to learn from it detroit news patriotic lesson As an long as aa the graves of ow our dead are so cherished by the nati nation oll aj to claim a day set apart for de mitlon oration in a spirit of proper gratitude abd revere reverence nM there need beIl tUe fat that t a life gmt sw fw ii ficat la in vain T |
