The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-02
REVEREND Mr., LOOFBOUROW MAKES vi
POWERFUL PLEA FOR PREPAREDNESS
Duty of Every Good American Is To Uphold His Country
and His God Says Memorial Day Orator
Mr.. Loofbourow,s Address

Memorial Day Is one of the finest
Of our national customs. II brings out
the noblest instinct of our people. To
day, we call again the roll of our i'm
mortals, especially those who. repd cred
emf nept, service in the dark days of
the Civil War, We think Of lincoln,
of Grant, Of Sherman, Of Sheridan, of
Thomas, of Stanton, of Summer and
of Cbase. But with them we honor
the great host whose names history
will newer record. And we do well.
"But we do more than this, We
make this a day consecrated 20 all our
dead. Cemeteries our nation over will
bloom with flowers, of remembrance
today. From Alaska to Porto Rico,
Il IN Maine to the Philippines, wher.
ever Old Glory waves, the hearts of
our people will acknowledge with low
ing gratitude our indebtedness to the
past. 1t is as though the generations
that have preceded us are today speak
ing in still, small voice, This do in
remembrance of me-. In this, too, we
do well.
Lincoln Carried Heavy Burden
"In our preparations for this day
the thought has been with me tnat il
costs something to be remembered.
Why do we give Lincoln the first place
on Memorial DayH Because he carried
heavier burden than any other
As the years pass, history brings out
the kindness, the nobleness the loneli-
ness, the sadness Of his life. We un-
derstand better the full weight of re-
sponsibility that rested on him. He
would not today be the great chief Of
his greater country had he not paid
the price for his remembrance. And
does not every man pay for the me
mortal he receivesf Not for his tomb
stone, necessarily, but for the love and
esteem in which he is held. l have q
friend who puts this in rather grue-
some way. He sometimes remarks, If
YOU want q good funeral you must
make the arrangements for it yourself,
beforehand" Parents and children,
soldiers and civilians, old and young,
if we want people to remember us we
must do something worth being re-
niembered.
Hero Dead Paid Price
CIT is more than half century now
since the Civil War came to a close.
And l know that sometimes our young,
.er people wonder why it is that we
make all this fuss over the old sol
diers. II is simply because they paid
the price, and put all succeeding gen
>eratims of the American, people for
ever in their debt. The days Of Isl
and 'G5 may mean little to us now as
we read the few chapters given to
them in school history.
''But they were terrific days of suf
fering and blood. The keenest reali-
zaton of the sacrifices has not come
70 me through reading books of his
tory 1t came when as boy l sat on
my fathers knee and listened to him
, tell Of the BATTLES of the Wilderness
and of Spotslyvania. We today honor
these comrades Of the George W. De
/ Long Post because they are living
tie binding us to the past.
"It was not possible for each of
| these men to be at Antietam and Get
! tySburg. Many a soldier of the grand
! army never saw an actual battle. But
We honor them all because they were
part of q great movement. We honor
! tbc statesmen, the generals, the ad.
! mirals of the war today, but we also
! honor every soldier who lies in an
, unmarked grave.
\ "The great national cemetery at Ar
lington has it's han of fame and its
notable graves. But to me the most
! impressive of all is the monument to
/ the unknown dead. The inscription
reads, Beneath this stone repose the
bones of PHI unknown soldiers, gath
cred from the fields of Bull Run and
| the route to the Rappahannock
! Names And Dsatbs Reeorded
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neu, .ouI .neir names ana tt;I are
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