Show A fiffi aw 0 th awro 7 ved dp A 4 J U 7 N ta l 7 7 C E r tar above league ot ol coast guard women placing a wreath before the monument erected in arlington national cemetery to the members of the united st states ates coast guard who gave their lives during the world war betow below the cenotaph in arlington national cemetery commemorating the 23 army chaplains of all faiths and creeds elds who lost their lives in the world war by ELMO SCOTT WATSON lay flay is a day for decorating the graves of our warrior dead established originally in memory ot of those who lost their lives during the civil war it has been made ahde abra the occasion for recalling those others who died in other wars and since 1918 1018 the day has had a deeper significance ance for more americans than ever before when we speak of our world war dead we usually think of the soldiers Eal lors and marines the fighting men who gave their lives on the battlefields of france or in the fathomless depths of the atlantic but there were others besides soldiers sailors and marines who also served and died for their country and it Is fitting that they too should bo be honored on Meni memorial orial day the title of chaplain brings to the mind the picture of a man of peace rather than of a man of war yet written in the annals of the great conflict of 1014 1914 to 1918 Is the record of more than one example of heroism in battle of indifference to danger and of unselfish devotion to duty by these soldiers of the cross and in arlington national cemetery stands a cenotaph which recalls the fact that 23 chaplains of the united states army men of all faiths and creeds gave their lives for their country ou on the bronze tablet affixed to this stone warker marker are inscribed these names albert U D bell howard john 0 boone michael IV keith john G breden john 0 kerr thomas al bulla john F mccarthy patrick P carey arthur U H marsh H A chouinard 0 E H walton S danker charles D priest wil allam am F davial wllbur wilbur S sewell john A deaver daniel S S smart mart harry delman herbert P doyle below the names Is inscribed ed this epitaph for them greater love hath no nan man than this that a man inan lay down tits his life for tits his friends and to you from falling failing hands bands we throw the torch be yours to hold it high in arlington also stands another memorial recalling the sacrifice of men who served in a branch of tile the united states service which Is tao 90 little known to most americans tills this la Is the stone obel obelisk lisL erected in 1028 1928 in memory of tue be off officers leers and enlisted men of the united states coast guard I 1 who lost their lives during the world war I 1 the average american perhaps thinks of the coast guard gaard mainly in terms of its newspaper notoriety gained in chasing rum ruca runners little realizing that its task of preventing the smuggling of contraband liquor into this country Is only one of the many services which it performs for the coast guard has a record of years of honorable service under its p proud roud motto of Pa ratus always ready in performing various duties the coast guard wits created by act of congress in 1915 which brought about a merger of the revenue cutter ter bervice vice and the former lifesaving life saving bervice the revenue cutter service to which the coast guard traces back was established in n 1710 during the second session of the first congress upon the che of alexander hamilton the first secretary iff the treasury the continental navy had been disbanded at the close of the revolution and there was no organized armed force to protect the coasts of the new republic and to enforce the customs cT laws in every war in which tho the united states participated the revenue cut A aw 1 P p W saw ter service sen ice ancestor of tie lie evata guard performed brilliantly during the alie war of 1812 its vessels assisted by small gunboats gun boats protected our coastal trade from the ravages of the hos tile ships sent out by gret great britain the mistress of the seas sea to harass our coast towns and nur shipping in the civil war it had a part in both naval engagements and in IIDA blockade cade work thirteen revenue cutters co operated cooperated with rith the tha navy and seven seen with the army during the spanish american war one of these the Al mcculloch cCulloch helped dewey at the hattle of manila bay and won special from the admiral and another the hudson took part in the action at cardenas cuba the officers and the crew of the hudson were awarded medals by congress for their rescue work of the torpedo boat winslow in tills this engagement this fine ene tradition was car carried carriea on by the coast guard service during the world war on april 11 1017 1917 president wilson mobilized the coast guard and id the lighthouse service under the command of the secretary of the navy davy for the express purpose of resisting the submarines winch which it was virtually certain that germany would sea send to attack our coast how allow real that danger was and the important part pait which the coast guard plumed played in curbing the ravages of these deadly undersea under sea ii fighters lit was revealed repealed for the first time tg two 0 years ago when little brown browa and company published william bell clarks clarka book when U boats came to america in addition to operating in home waters the boats of the coast guard i s service ervice also served on the other side of 0 the atlantie antle six of its cruising cutters were sent abroad labroad to join the naval forces in the war zone principally as ocean escorts working from england to gibraltar while engaged in this service the tampa was sunk by a submarine and of the coast guards casualties were recorded as the result of that disaster chaplains coast guardsman guardsmen guards guard men swen they also served and died but there Is still another group whose sacrifices are too tittle known and whose mian ury ory should be honored on an memorial day ibay they are the heroic women members of the army nurse corps who lam down their ives although none was killed in action three were wounded by enemy lire fire two lost their lives ives slid and one was seriously wounded in an explosion in hi target practice on one of our transports at sea A hundred r wre re had a narrow escape from death when the tha transport on oa which they had bad just embarked had bad in new york harbor which sent ll it to the lle bottom but pneumonia onla and influenza caused the death of nearly and overwork exhaustion and poor living conditions accounted far the lie deaths of the llie rem remainder who gave their lives for kneir country countr just as truly an aa did any soldier who fell in the firing line three members of the army nurse corps received the american distinguished service sen ice cross here are thelt theli citations miss bliss helen 0 mcclelland base hospital no 10 for extraordinary heroism in action while on duty with the surgical team at british casualty clearing station no 61 british aren area france august 17 1017 1917 she occupied the same tent with miss bliss beatrice macdonnald Mac donnld another reserve nurse cared for her when wounded stopped the hemorrhage from hor her wounds under fire caused by bombs from terman airplanes bliss mcclelland Ci clelland elland was horn born in Austin burgh ohio miss macdonald a new york girl received the D S 0 also her citation reads in part during a german night air raid mid she continued at her post of duty caring for the sick and wounded until seriously wounded by a german bomb thereby losing an eye miss bliss isabell n also on the s taff staff of base hospital 10 a pennsylvania girl was seriously wounded while with a surgical team at a british casualty clearing station during the big german drive of march 21 1918 not far from Arn amiens lens twenty four women were glyen given the distinguished service medal for exceptionally meritorious service gervice to the government in a place of c responsibility here are their names and places of birth lillian aubert west baton rouge la cecella A breuhan Bre uban Branc hdale bdale pa katherine Kather lne brown philadelphia pa sophy mary alary burns st francis wis reba heba G camer camerom Ca meroa canada edna N coughlin Coughl ln kenosha kenyana Ke noana WIS VIs alice 11 flash jefferson county ga annie V goodrich new brunswick Brunsw lck N J carrie L howard calusa colusa calif grace E ark NJ N J sayres L browns vilia pa jane 0 malloy kingston N Y with edith A k mury wadsworth nev adele S poston Spring daie ark marli B rhodes pittsburgh P pa blanche S rulon hulon waretown Ware town N J lillian J ryan boyle ireland mary K N sheehan truxton N Y nena shelton lexington ky catherine sinnott conn julia 0 stimson worcester mass ethel A sweet gesto gasto ontario dora B E thompson cold spring N Y urs mrs lynette 4 la ind IA 3 lill 1931 union |