The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-31
PRESIDENT At
PORTSMOUTH, VA.
Memorial Day Address Under
Auspices of Army and
Navy Union.
MONUMENT IS UNVEILED
SEVERAL THOUSAND MEN IN
THE PARADE.
MONUMENT IS UNVEILED

Portsmouth. Va, May 5G.-President
Roosevelt Joined the people Of Virginia
today in a beautiful and impressive tribute
10 the nations dead. Under the auspices
of the Army and Navy union the organi-
zation Of the officers and enlisted men
Of the United States army and navy, the
president delivered the Memorial Day ad-
dress here 10 an audience numbering
thousands.
Immediately after delivering the Grafton
OF the day President Roosevelt unveiled
3 monument erected in the Naval GENE
terry by the Army and Navy union to the
memory Of its dead comrades.
The procession consisted Of several
thousand men from the North Atlantic
fleet, Army anj Navy union organizations,
Grand Army veterans, camps Of COnfed-
crate veterans, and many other sOci-
cites.
At Il o'clock the exercises opened with
prayer by Bishop Van Devyer Of the
Catholic diocese Of Richmond. After mu-
sic by a military band. President Roose-
Welt was introduced by Colonel j. Edwin
Brown, national commander of the Army
and Navy union.
The presidents address follows
This day IS haIlOwed and sacred In our
history, for on this day throughout the
land we meet to pay homage to the mem
DRY OF the valiant dead who fell in the
great Civil war No other men deserve
so well Of this country as those to whom
We owe IL that We now have a country
Moreover. the men to whose vaIor we
left US a country reunited in fact as well
as in name They have left US the mem
DRY of the great deeds and the seIf-devO-
ton alike of the men who wore the blue
and Of the men who wore the gray in the
contest where brother fought brother with
equal courage, with equal sincerity of con-
viction, with equal fidelity to a high ideal
as Il was given to each TO see that
ideal
Moreover. 1t IS a peculiar pleasure TO
speak today under the auspices Of the
of 7Tri0
which Is meant TO include the officers
and enlisted men of the regular forces
of the United states Exactly as there
IS no other body of men to whom in the
past we have owed SO much as to the
Veterans of the Civil war, so there is no
other body of men among all of our citi-
zens Of today who as a whole deserve
quite as we'll of the country as the Of
fiCers and enlisted men Of the army and
the navy of the United States Every
man VINO has served well and faithfulIy.
aflOat or ashore, in the service of the
United States, has shown that he pos
sesseS certain qualities which entitIe him
IN a peculiar degree to the respect Of all
his fellow citizens, while every man who
IS now in the service cannot but feel
himself upHfted By the thought that in
any time of future crisis il may be that
the honor of the whole nation viii de
pend upon his bearing There rests upOn
each of YOU tremendous burden of
responsibility, and therefore to YOU be
longs the proud privilege Of bearing that
load Of responsibility we'll.
Tribute to Veterans.
This audience is composed largely of
Il eterans Of the Civil war. largely Of men
who have served in or are serving in the
army and the navy of the United States
They are concerned not only with the
duties of the soldier and the sailor. but
with the duties of the civilian with all
matters affecting the plain everyday cfti-
zen as he does his everyday duties For
We must always remember that in our
country our army and navy are an army
and navy made up Of volunteers. all our
forces are volunteers: our regulars. afIcat
ana ashore, are merely our fellow Citi-
ZenS who of their own free will have
taken no this particular task. The task
once through they return to the body Of