flnO HOUJ SHALL UlEREfllEfllBER?
iit the end of this week we come to Mem
orial Day, the day set aside by ijnericans on
which to do honor to their dead, 'annually
special Memorial services are held on this
day throughout the nation for our war dead.
In rimerica there will be services of re
membrance beside the graves of soldiers who
died in each of the nationfs six great wars
in the less than two hundred years of our
countryf s life. The Revolution, War of
1812, Civil, Spanish-ijnerican and World Wars
I and II -- men died in them all, and on
Friday will be remembered again.
On this one day of the year the names on
rolls of honor across the countryside will
live again for a little time, before we roll
away the lists and lock them up in dust and
darkness for another year.
Those who died in our last and greatest
war will be first in our memories this Fri
day. The new dead, whose absence from us is
so short that the ache of their going has
not yet left us — those are the men whom we
will best remember on Friday.
ix wreath on a grave and tears in the hours
of darkness — that for our dead on Friday
next and then n more until another Fri
day of another year?
If that is the measure we give to the men
who fell in-Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Burma, Guadal
canal, Attu, France, Germany, Russia -- in a
thousand foreign spots across the globe, then
our dead are only dead and there is no hope.
Tears and flowers on Friday every year and
the dusty emptyness of nothing el*3 are the
easy way, the soft, cowardly way to remember
our men who are gone.
But if we would keep them living and keep
them with us always -- then we must choose a
harder, prouder way of remembering. Remember
them laughing, remember thorn happy, remember
them at play, remember them as they were when
they were with us in their days cf young id
ealism. and^above all, remember the things
they.wanted.done, the things they planned to
do in their life to make this country of
theirs a pleasant place in which to spend a
lifetime•
GOOD, GOOD, GOOD
Here’s a good Ala
skan dessert to serve
visiting firemen from
the states when cran
berry season rolls
around again:
Cranberry -Pie »
ETseoT/e "If cups
sugar in \ cup water a
and let come to a *
boil. Add 2 cups
cranberries and cook
until they pop. Mix
2 tbsp. cornstarch
with beaten yolks of
2 eggs and add to
cranberry mixc'ire.
*idd 1 tbsp. butter
and cook until sai'.ce
thickens. Fi?l prev
iously made pie crust
with this filling;
Beat 2 egg whites,
add 2 tbsp. sugar and
cover pie. Brown in
oven. Cool before
serving.
Mrs. Adam Lipke
r - ■ ■ — —. .
If we remember our
men that way, then
America will. ha-'*e a
core of hardness that
nothing can defeat,
They are gone with
their work undone - -
if we whom they \pf;
behind can shou-der
their jobs with ours
and. carry two basks i
through to their fin
ishing, then they ar3
not really gone. They
will be with us in
the effort, and far
closer to us always
th^-n they were when w
they were locked away^
in the filing cabinet .
of our mind for 364 *
days each year. I