Show rim f NL ab C 01 I 1 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON B R ENLISTED in a pennsyl vanla regiment in june 1776 1775 nod and marched to the siege of boston lie he followed montgomery gomery ta ae quebec and starved and froze amid the snows oi of canada wearing yearl ng the die Continent continental at butt buff and blue he fought y I 1 under washington at tren ton and at and 4 the ifie summer of 1777 he went with dana aul morgan to repel burg Bur goynes Os invasion nV aslon of new york i 1 at saratoga the bayonet thrust of a hessian grenadier struck him down if the historians of the future were to call this conal conflict let whose din araa ps now sounding fall faintly itly in his ears cars one of tho the fifteen decisive battles of athe lie world lie ile was conscious only of the torture of bi thirst t as hla his lifeblood 1 ebbed swiftly away until death nily finally stilled of hyater Vya terl I 1 ya a teil 0 A great monument fa stands tand s 0 on n zhe ahe spot which once watne witnessed wised the mhd pomp amp and circumstance of wae war tb the arre ader of a 0 british arroyo but baut 1 ni arby the s smooth green green sod gives eo 9 sign that the soil beneath holds bo 0 dust of a young pennsylvania ck woodsman one of the many who died ed in defense of american liberty berti Il who he was he be just on an unknown soldier er of the revolution I 1 before the ink on his enlistment papers in the first infantry was ic arcely dry another boy who had bev anever ei before been beyond b the con fines of 0 the rock strewn acres of the little new england farm where le ao iwas born was on his way ava to the ithe western frontier there to serve in a lonely outpost called fort dearborn rt was as though he were oia oi another planet so BO far as communication with the world he had known was concerned but somehow lie he managed to alve live through the cold desolate win itera and the hot fever breeding sum piers amid the swamps along the chicago river f with the summer of 1812 came the pews aws of war with great britain and r pore ore alarming still the threat of an adlan outbreak the then n orders to evacuate fort dearborn one hot august day the retreat be jan gan from out of the sandhills sand hills ald along hp lahe michigan swooped the fierce A short desperate wit fight and the fort dearborn massacre aas was history what that elgh there was a hellish orgy in ift the indian camp and the pitying aars looked down upon n writhing figure at the stake what it if this was one of the acts in the drama called he winning of tie west what if the future was J to see one of the worlds greatest ettles cities rise on in these sandy shores abores could that thai knowledge have been recompense for the fiery agony of tills this vew new england lad ind above whose ain un marked gravo grave the hurrying harrying feet of Chi cagos millions today beat an end less requiem who was lie ho an un soldier of the war of though some of his neighbors denounced moun ced it as an unholy war into which president tolk polk was leading the patton nation a certain middle western farm 1 boy was one of the first firs t to respond when the president on may 13 1840 called ca ailed for volunteers to drive the ahe mexicans back across the rio grande and so he was among those saho landed with old fuss fusi and ana I 1 feathers cathers scott at vera cruz and started toward tho city of mexico to his parents back fh ohio came cheerful letters from the boy telling of the rapid succession of victories won by the american army and ni assuring them thein that the war was almost over and that ho would soon be home ills his last letter was wag written the night before scotts soldiers sold lers stormed clia cha pec th tho boys parents awaited hl his return lo in vain today in birons of the city of mexico there Is a little cemetery la in which stands a small granite sha shaft ift bearing these words to the memory of the american soldiers who perished in this valley in 1847 whose bones collected by the count rys orders are here burled 11 and so this unknown soldier of the mexican war sleeps among the in alien ailen soil fort sumter had been fired upon in the tha upper shenandoah valley of virginia a father arr ww A bidding goodbye by 0 to ids his t two v p son ons sPray pray god od you two never hever meet in litle battle 1 l he be said ami ancone one rodg rode north 0 jo o wear we ar the ehg feda F edl eral cral blue under general patterson rat terson and the other rods south to become a member of gen thomas J jack b 6 the dead if it A blow out you bugles over the it 0 rich dead theres thares none of these so lonely ely and poor df d old ft but dying has made us richer Ss gif graf to than ahan kold gold if V I 1 these laid the world away M poured out we th red i alf t sweet wine of 41 youth gave up ift A the acara ito be i V of wor work kand and loy joy and that un ift y hoped sereno st that men call age and those if A who would have been V ia 5 their immortality is bons eons 0 no they gave cave their y 0 A V ia bugles blow I 1 they brought V us tia for our dearth noll nesa lacked so BO long anil and f Q love and pain ii Y X honor has come coma back as sl king ii to earth A and paid his subjects with a 6 W 0 royal wage i V and nobleness walks in our 14 V ways waya again A and aad we w a have come into our if heritage her altage V A M brooks brooke ift tons ona stonewall brigade whether or not his prayer was answered the father never know knew he never saw either again s in some valhalla two warrior spirits i of chancellorsville and AnUp tam of manassas Manus sas and malvira nill but there Is no blit bitterness erness in their tones as they call each other yank tank and johnny reb the crumbling dust of tho the bodies which once housed pouted these spirits rests under a great monument of roughhewn rough hewn granite ite and polished marble in arlington cemetery near washington I 1 C Q on this his monument Is an inscription which roads reads Bene beneath nih stone repose the bones of 2111 unknown n soldiers gath ered after tho the war from the fields of bull bud run and the route to the rapa kappa bannock lina nock their rem remains alfis could not be identified but their names and deaths are arc recorded in the archives of their country and its grateful citizens honor them as of their noble army of martyrs may hay they rest in peace it was the spring of 1698 A col orado miner coming off tho the night shift joined a group of IN fellow gathered about ane one who read in ia c s denver paper the headlines wai ift with spain A month later he be wai on tin an army anny transport that steamer through tire the golden gate into anio th tb broad pacific the next year berwa one of a detachment which set oui through the philippine angle in pur suit of a party of moro ta raiders iders thor then was a deat hilke hush as aa they pushed on through the steaming heat of th jungle A moment later its Ft stillness illness was vas shattered by the sounds oamer of men engaged la in furious hand to hand corn com bat bayonet against bolo a swarm ol oi little brown men clawing at a kr grobi of sweating swearing desperately struggling khaki clad figures and bei bearing tring them down to earth by sheer force of num bers A few months late back in the colorado mining town a and band played therell be a ilot hot tinie time in theold town tonight for the troop of our boys was home from the W wars ars adut out in theli the province r of sulu rusted lustid krag zor gorgensen g ensen andra ap ik webb ed cartridge bolt already nearly hidden by the lush jungle vegetation marked the last resting resting place of one who come home an unknown soldier of TSOO 00 november 11 in arlington cemetery a great throng stood with bared heads as a bugler blew taps tape over a new white marble tomb in which had been placed edthe the body of a dead warrior of him it has been written once lie he trod 0 our fir s streets freais perhaps the very pavements which we dally daily travel it never entered his head that be would become a symbol of sacrifice and his tomb a shrine sirrine of pilgrimage if any one haul foretold as aa much to him how lie he would have laughed it if anyone were to reveal to us who lie be really was that he be had bad been a cashier in a new mw york bank or a taxi tarl driver la in Cht chicago cago would he still retain his power so deeply to move us who was he be this unknown known soldier whom we have exalted out of humanity into hood that question of identity can never be answered but of him atris this can to te said since that day seven seven years ago memorial day has baa had bad a new meaning on this day hl his tomb Is a ebrine before which in spirit all americans bow reverent heads for thus they honor not only the unknown soldier of the world war but the unknown soldiers of all of our wars the revolution tho the war of 1812 the mexican war tho the civil war the spanish american wat wait we ve cannot decorate their graves in accordance with the memorial day custom cu for their last resting places un marked are scattered far and islat over the face of the globe some of them hem fell before indian bullet and lance on the windswept wind swept plains of the great west some of them died in china in the in mexico lexis some of them went west on the battlefields of brunco and bel glum I 1 so in allen alien soil boll they keep their lonely bivouac of the dead acad and while we cannot pay them the same honors on memorial day that we do the th others who gave their lives for their country wo we can offer up to ahem our tribute of gratitude by remembering on that day what they dill did even though wo we do not know who they were |