The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-05-31
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THE CEMETERY
MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES
CARRIED OUT WITH GRAFTON
BY HORNE.

The Memorial Day parade yesterday
afternoon was carried out according to
the prearranged programme. There
was a large crowd at the cemetery and
the exercises there were very impress
sive. The orator of the day, Perley H.
Horne, spoke as follows:
Veterans of the War, Sympathetic
Friends, ALI Forty and five years have
passed away since there sprung into
existence, as in no other time, mighty
armies in response to Lincolns Aall for
volunteers. Created almost out of
nothingness these armies at the begin
ming were poorly equipped, without
training and without officers. oh, the
glorious history of that war that has
called out in the lessons derived there
from a heroic devotion and self-sacri-
flee, brilliant achievements that mark
ed the whole course of the war of '61
Never will it pass from the minds of
the veterans here present, or through
out the world, memories of those days
Well will they remember the tattered
uniforms, the unbeatable infantry. the
charge, the roar of battle and at times
the terrible retreat. We sons of veter-
ans who glory in the days of the past
who hung at our fathers knees eager
to gather the story of that war, will
always remember the past as well as
our children and our children's chill
dren, the story of those days as it has
come to us. One of the armies follow
ed a flag i'm that war, created i'm the
din and roar of battle, and after the
four years it was fought for, it dis
appeared from the earth. The other
army followed the glorious old Stars
and Stripes, created in the days of the
Revolution.
'Thirty-seven years after the open
ing of the Civil War another war broke
out and then our fathers from the
North, and from the South WED with
each other in seeing who would be first
ready to respond to the cali of the ma
ton, and South and North and North
and South fought side by side to prove
that there is only one American nation,
that there is but one flag and that the
glorious Stars and Stripes.
"Soon after the Civil War. one fair
Sunday in the monSi of May the peo-
pie gathered together and with music,
flowers and song and prayer dedicated
the decoration of grave, of those who
had fallen in the strife That act in
itself brought out the greatest feeling
throughout the nited States 1t was
the symbol that the perils of war were
over and there was ushsred in a reign
of peace and year by year that simple
service has by deep conservation ce-
mented the union of this great nation.
Naturally, directly after the great
war, it was the PERSONA element that
made Memorial Day so attractive.
Many were the graves that were dec
GRATED; many the friends that gathered
around to decorate the graves, and
naturally as the years have gone by
that personal element has somewhat
disappeared and today we commence
rate the Ideals of the American SOL
der. We see the ranks of the veter-
ans grow thinner year by year Theirs.
is an army to which there can be no
recruits. The artillery of time is maxi
ing terrific ravages in their ranks, but
while they live Memorial Day will live
and flouish. And when they have all
passed away Memorial Day will still
live in the Sons of Veterans and when
they have passed away the glorious
ideals will live in their children.
To-day, all through the broad land,
East and West and North and South
and even in these islands of the sea
we see people gathered together to do
honor to the day. Let no man make
you believe that this day will die. 1t
is not so. This day represents freedom.
1t is as old as the world. 1t has found
its greatest response among the Ameri-
can people. We cherish it's principles
and pass them on to 4uI children. This
Same principle was evidenced in those
who fought at Lexington and hung on
the retreat from Concord, and faced
death at Bunker i'll and experienced
the horrors of famine at Valley Forge
This principle is imbt dded in the hearts
Of the English people from Runny-
mede TO Gettysburg md to the terri
BILE charge up San Juan hill. This
principle Of liberty is what we celebrate
today.
1--WE have two national holidays, the
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birth of the ration, and Memorial Day
the preservation of that nation.
"The war teaches us of courage in
the standing up for principle, of stand
ing by the truth and sincere self-sacri-
fee
"You veterans of the war, you know
what all this means. AS the years go
by lt crystallizes in your memory
What then is the lesson for us, not in
words only, but in deeds Let us train
our children also in the way you have