NATION HONORS
ALL HER I HOE-S
Memories of Veterans of Three
Wars Are Enshrined in
Country’s Heart.
Memorial day is the day of the dead,
the veterans of three wars; but,
though newly consecrated by the fresh
and poignant sacrifices of those who
passed away in the great war of liber
ation “over there,” there cannot be
W now, any more than in the past, any
associations but those of true joy and
honorable pride, far removed from the
despair of causes lost, or from griefs
.-over those whose death is without
meaning and end without result. For
it is the holy joy of those who know
that the sacrifices were not in vain
that distinguished this day of days
this year, coupled with the realization
that both those who went and those
who remained joined freely in the
oblation on the altar of the country
with an unfaltering belief in the tint
nobility of the obligation and the deep
significance of what it meant for the
common good.
While the ceremonies on this side
follow the usual lines, heightened by
the opportunity to pay fresh homage
where homage is due, the tribute that
is paid “over there,” beginning with
the ceremony at Suresnes, near which
has been developed the American
cemetery nearest to Paris, at which
President Wilson officiated last year,
in the very presence of the dead them
selves, tabes on an especially moving
character. For in nothing did the
American expeditionary force and all
Its helpful accessory agencies, such as
the Red Cross, so distinguish them
*• selves as in their concern that the last
resting p ace of those who fell abroad
should be neither unknown, unmarked
nor unhonored. As a result of this
determined and consecrated effort of
all services, the new graves of the
hero dead, be they located where they
fell, or removed to the permanent
centers of burial that have been se
lected at appropriate places as the
official American cemeteries, will re
ceive every attention that is their just
due from their brothers in arms “ovei
there” and a grateful country. The
graves, all separately and singly
* marked with the cross, or the star,
save in name and title, no distinction
of rank being allowed in the identify
ing symbol, will be decorated, one and
all. And while much that has been
devised as to the handling of these
special cemeteries has followed the
plan of the British, who have been a<
work at the problem much longer, yet
a peculiarly American touch is given
in that this annual commemoration of
Memorial day, so familiar to us all,
* is new to our allies, and to the French,
though they have gladly co-operated
with the American forces in order to
make the day a truly notable one and
one of general and significant com
memoration.
so tar as uie general cemeteries go
we have followed the British in fhe
plan for the separate graves, but they
have gone a little further in that eacli
large burying place will be dominated
by a tall crass and plain altar stone,
described by Kipling as “the Cross of
Sacrifice and the Stone of Remem
brance,” the stone bearing the inscrip
tion. also suggested by Kipling, “Their
name liveth forevermore.” Save for
this, the great concentration ceme
teries of the American forces, such as
Romagne-sur-Montfaucon, the largest,
containing 36,000 graves of those who
fell in the Meuse-Argonne battles, will
represent little more than the sim
plicity of Quaker burying grounds,
since the permanent memorial monu
ments that may be erected are yet to
%e determined. But there is no ques
tion of the monumental effect of the
commemoration, nor will those who lie
in the smaller cemeteries or in the
little French churchyards be ov<«
looked today or in the years to come.
This is all as it should be. And
quite as those at home would wish it.
And, as has happened in the case of
the older celebrations, even though the
day brings its fresh and deeper sor
rows, at the same time there must be
felt everywhere the comforting sense
that the country and those who have
passed away were equal to their task
in the world crisis. It is but meet
and proper, therefore, that all should
insist that wherever they may lie each
and all who paid the final debt shall
be marked from among their fellows,
dead and living, by such seemly and
ceremonial observances as we have
set up here for generations and are
now repeating abroad. Respect and
^recognition for what they did and
proper honors for the hero dead lend
dignity to the living, glorify all sense
of duty and discipline and lift all life
into the nobler channels of a human
ity that is not, as is writ of the beasts
of the fields, “without aim or hope,”
but serves understanding^ and not in
vain.
PASSING OF THE GRAND ARMY
Significant That in Omaha Three Posts
of Veterans Have Had to Be
Consolidated.
One of the items of local news car
ries with it a tinge of sadness, ob
serves the Omaha Bee. It recounts
the fact that the three Omaha posts
of the Grand Army of the Republic
are to be consolidated because they no
longer have numerical strength for
more than one. This is simple no
tice thajt the great organization of men
who wore the Idue and marched with
Grant and Sherman, Is passing on
more rapidly than we realize. They
were hoys in ’05, when the conflict
closed, hut that was more than half
a century ago. and the youngest head
that sheltered under a soldier’s cap
then is now snow-white from age. Ii
was inevitable that (his association of
men who shared together the hard
ships and privations, the dangers and
the triumphs of war, should pass in
its time, for its members are immor
tal only in the deeds they wrought
and the glory they brought to America.
Soon “the muffled drum’s sad roll”
will have beaten the iast tattoo for the
Grand Army; tlie la^t veteran will have
been laid away to await the bugle
sounding reveille in eternity, the last
bronze button will be placed alongside
the tattered old battle flags and the
stained uniform, and the Grand Army
of the Republic will live only in the
memory of a people who will more and
more enjoy the fruitage of its history.
For
On fame’s eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread,
While glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead
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