| Show 0 or remembrance Y LEON LEONARD AL A B barreit BAR REft N cemeteries both small and large will assemble ij r groups of patriotic citizens aws for the purpose of decorah ag yg ing the graves craves of those who y fell in war brave veterans vet erana they were some fought with ax weapons which today seem to us rather crude the army rifle of the twentieth century Is an immense improvement over the gun of the civil war rapidly firing machine runs guns poison gas submarines torpedoes and nil all the implements of modern warfare were to them unknown like all the wars of history the civil war was fought by young men the following table indicates the ages of the unionist soldiers who fought in the civil war fourteen years of age and under 2111 fifteen years of age aga and under sixteen years and under seventeen years and under eighteen years and under twenty one years and under 2159 7 twenty five and over forty four and over the total number of enlisted men was three fourths of whom were wera under twenty one years of age the tha power which hurled burled slavery from its throne was young men dreaming dreams by patriots graves we cannot think of decoration day without the portrait of abraham lincoln presenting itself vividly before us what this country night might have suffered without his leader leadership sl alp ilp only the good providence knows the purpose of the war as lincoln conceived iti it was not to free the slave although that was a factor in the case the principal reason tor for the war was to save the union the war of 1773 1770 taught the world to know us the war of 1812 taught us to know our ourselves selve the first won tor for us our independence the latter our self respect and solidarity plutarch writes the fortune of all good men Is that their virtue rises in glory after their death and that the envy which any evil man may have conceived against them never survives the envious earious 11 so do we remember those whose supreme sacrifice has cemented into one nation our united states of america all honor to their memory as we place the laurel wreath alike upon the graves of the khaki tho the blue and the gray a 0 by western newspaper union |
