The Mena weekly star., 1916-06-08

praised that We are a united hem The war with Spain dem0nssl, that fact. 0hl | know it B bs,E to get rid of family patriotism NJ may love each other to death Ws we found it necessary to march E the old boys in Grey. and the N bows in Blue together. each i his place under Old Glory marched out for humanity's as Shafter, Wilson. Wheeler and IA and numerous other marched sK eether, giving orders togetheF saH aH fighting together under t,ic sal flag.
 If the South had had that they might have routed us. ItsK mighty hard matter to defeat Glory. Many of these leaders fought and they had seen many d and they had marched under a same flag in i847, but the boys M marched together in uniforms blue and grey, who marched k gether under that flag how cF they spoil it with shot and shd Yes. say. l have often thoughg \ they had had that flag they wiE have whipped us. E
 Yes, and the mothers had t E part in this great war. While lh sons and husbands clad in the VI ter time. with the therm0meter low zero, in cold linen garms and without shoes upon then isE while her loved ones were baptl the land with their blood that tmE dom might come to this fair lsG ours. she was baptizing it with tears.
 Ayel When the boys of the soldiers in Grey and the boys 0i old soldiers in Blue went down by side on San Juan Hill as died together and bled out lives in behalf of humanity unx that flag, when their blood triCEh lOvin the sands of San Juan Hill a mingled. there was a cement fOTHaE stronger than the bands of aaf like mighty magnet bringing mH closely and tighter together than ever had been before. That a tism of bloodiness was new tism for this renewed and spleuH nation.
 The day of memory, we have much to remember that we can touch some of them. scattering ll them as we go along E
 Our present status is an eIA Of patriotism. an exhibit of our vOtion Their sacrifice pr0e this magniiicient country resG the family. established a nation which everybody is glad to R citizen. K What matter that sometimes feel So serene and safe from sea t0 In the land where snow-eap
 mountains rise to the E Kind plains Tn endless beauty K F Or golden sands that laugh
 sparkle in the uH
 And forests. rivers. and lakes v
 pete To come and bring their sold lay 1t at thy feet.
 The starry banner gleails alal, On mountain face thy banners I have sometimes been @
 How can 1t be that the prayeh Lee and Jackson were not swered? Words are not pIG You must know that the grea good to one's own people. the g est blessings to the South Welf petitions and prayers of thls nai army praying for the rlght ahu answered hy making these say this union stronger than esei fore Instead of the seveFsl the North from the South 'hs ferences that seemed to mahe K drawal from the Union, ana s a government of their own, WIZ moved by that war. And the pl E of adhesion has been at Wgla since. And we all know llis made the united, deternllhsa i as it never was before the @at
 Our old ship of state has sas shock upon shock. shlVeFh h7 stem to stern. from deepest m highest mast, but under tV9 ,n z way she has always rignteq .h.s i We feel safer on that shlp 1S s would feel on any other '
 this world at this time.
 Some people think we liase
 member the sorrows oi lnu men each year. Just Wip country had begun to feel tlls e,a, m pings of a newer life, the c9ll,s,r Nsr er-in-chief of the Army ond N@ | tbte United States Of Alllels
 President of the United otd'p' d;n d ham Lincoln, went down dSod N U Abraham Lincoln. who letflia ias world, and the world knows ,,o l g And as the years pass on nJ saj knows 1t more and more. aiI ia ' and better that Abrahain
 was the world wide lover hnl who could know nothills ser N 'mility, and sympathy, anu aiioa and charity. Just as thls ns~ al . experiencing the throDDlliitS;os
 newed life in it's eNtfeilli' fiaif| was rejoicing. Abraham lllo bsni # went down in death at m tlle ~rsB ~ < an assassin. Lincoln. the t neef American of them all, tle ony ny any man, of any land, ., oS bos and millions shall come a1 a,'1 1the # that shrine where flowe:ul redD tion's blood and chant hi'
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