The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-05-30
MEMORIAL DAY
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those who have gone before Fully as
sured is the fair reward of those who
are following on
Happi may it be said of each and
everyone who offered his blood for his
country's life, that nobly he fulfilled
the injunction of the music-murmuring
Bryant
so live that when thy summons
comes to join the innumerable caravan
which moves to the pale realms of
shade where each shall take his cham
Der in the silent halls of death, thou
50 not like the quarry slave at night,
scourged to his dungeon; but, sustain
ed and soothed by an unfaltering trust,
approach thy grave like one who wraps
the drapery of his couch about him and
lies down to pleasant dreams"
The great majority have ,ready
crossed the Valley of the Shadow of
Death and entered the bounds Of the
beautiful Beyond while the surviving
legions, with enfeebling years, but
hopeful hearts, are pressing to the goal
across whose portals shine the camp
fires of eternal life.
If there is any sure passport to that
realm of bliss, it is written between
the lines of the honorable discharge of
every soldier and every sailor who
stood with unconquerable determine
ton between his countrys life and his
country's death. That passport will
carry him through if anything can, and
back of that safe-conduct is the flaw
less character and patriotic purpose
which led him to enlist, and which he
has never lost.
That discharge-that passpoTt--that
safe-conduct many received on the field
of battle, many on the march, and
many in the fever-stricken camp, while
others are patiently waiting for the
, call between the lines; but the glory
of all is in the end alike, and their no
, bic lives and heroic deaths will be a
sublime inspiration and worthy eX-
ample for generations upon genera
. tions yet to come.
speak more particularly OF the vet
Grams of the G. A. R., because they are
the representative body of the citizen
soldiery of the Union, the backbone OF
the Nation, the men who have done
most to save their country, and who
are the honored organization under
whose generous and patriotic auspices
the ennobling and impressive ceremo-
/ MES of Memorial Day are so beauti-
= fully conducted.
= We later ones may have done our
t duty in UNFOLDING the honor of our
, flag; but our sacrifices, our sufferings,
= our experiences are meagTe compared
, with theirs. We may rank with the
! soldiers of the Mexican and Indian
Wars, or even with the sturdy legionH
of the Army and Navy of 1872; but
r the blood-stained heroes of the Civil
I War will stand through all times as
q the peers of the patriots who fought
: from the smoking heights Of Bunker
Hill till Freedom sang and Victory
: Icheered on Yorktown's radiant plains
The heroes of the Revolution found
ed in blood a towering temple, sole
and symmetrical to look upon, bu
whose carefully laid cornerstone rest
ed upon Slavery's sinking soil in which
Mans inhumanity to man made
\ countless thousands mourn"
The heroes of the Civil War, under
1 Lincoln and Grant, and Sherman and
} Sheridan, and Farragut and Porter
and Meade and Thomas, and Hancock
: and Logan, and Worden and Winslow
and myriads m ore of immortal men
caught the crumbling fabric as it was
e tottering to its fall, replaced its treach-
r erous foundation with a rock of endur.
{ ing righteousness, girded it's weaken
@ ing walls with the armor of truth anC
k Justice, and consecrated and establish
: ed an immutable Union that shall b'
the glory of the world and, in every
:. noblest sense, the Land OF the Free
u and the Home of the Brave while Ma
ii ttrro In ond Nations live
& But to all soldiers and all sailors
of every American war do we pay JUS
IS tribute: not merely in proportion t
e their respective achievements, but il
4 direct measure for the lofty purpos'
i and exalted virtue which animated
% them to answer their cOuntry's call
q Whether they reached a hero's dealt
% on the field of battle or fell prey Il
fever, or never faced foe; their spiri
. of sublime patriotism was the same
and they have pre-eminently Garnet
the gratitude of the Nation and tn
blessing of Him in Whose footstep
- they have humbly trod.
N The soldier who dies for his coun
n. trys good gives all he has to give, an
es seemingly more than he can fairl
d. Weld, because of the Borrowing and oil
N ten needy ones he leaves behind; bu
the supremacy earned immortality fol
lowing the brief span so rudely shat
tered gorifes his sacrifice above, an
should inspire us with reverence TO
his name and consolation for his un
timely loss.
So wreaths and garlands and char
let's should cover the graves OF on
= honored dead, and blossoms shout
u bloom where our heroes lie. Lovin
hearts should drink in the inspiratio
OF patriotic deeds, and grateful hand
should Gull the sweetest flowers a
10 fragrant offerings to those who hay
:" taught us bravely how to live and NOT
?" ly how to die
Yet this beautiful Memorial Da
di should not be day of sadness bu
rather one of pride and joy. Prid
di that we have had the glorious exam
pie of patriots brave and true. Joy tha
their work was well done,-that the
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