Show in ho 6 e m ory IV e wi a day Is with us 09 M MEMORIAL again may 80 30 this date marks the sixty first year that the grand army of the Ete republic public has observed the day in honor and memory of comrades who gave their lives alvea that that nation might live the very fa fact et that more than three score years have passed since general logon logan issued his famous order no 11 creating the day must cause us to remember that the comrades of the grand army amy who still sur survive vive must be aged men all of them well beyond four score years yeara in many places the day seems seeing to have taken taked on a new and dlf Terent significance as a gewand new and younger generation takes charge and carries out its own ideas of what constitutes a proper observance of af the day but where the grand army is still able to carry cairy on or where its wishes are observed it will be conducted in the quiet and dignified manner that has ever marked its keeping of the day this day Is to in memory of the vast number who gave their lives in defense of 0 the flag and to pre preserve this union let us as then at the appointed time gather round their sacred remains and garland the passion passionless lis s mounds above them with the choicest flow flowers erx of springtime let us raise above thern them the dear old flag that they saved from dishon dishonor 0 r set let us in this solemn pros pres ence renew our pledges to aid ad and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nations gratitude the soldiers and sailors widow and orphan so should it be on all days let the young give close atten tion to whatever may be done or said by the veterans themselves for or all will be memories stored in the pages that men call history it will give them power some day to thrill young hearts to say that they baw and heard men of the grand array army of tha republic althey marched and spoke o in some day of the long ago their memorial pay day |