The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-05-28
This Memorial Day Finds American Graves OUer There
HOLIDAY WILL take
ON new SOLEMN|TY

the Top that we, who stay at hOme may i've III salety
and honor.
This picture taken in graveyard in France, and
sent to this newspaper by the United States Commit
tee on Public Information, shows you how they Over
There honor those brave of ours who have fallen
Beside the open grave stands the general and H.
staff, with heads bowed low for {.
''The muffed drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo"
Such pictures might be made day after day and
often in day Over There and as our boys go over In
increasing throngs more and more of them will make
the supreme sacrifice.
Not only do these American heroes give of their
lives in actual combat with the Huns but they are pay
ing the death toll of war in all the ways soldiers die,
victims of accidents and disease well Of guns
and gases.
And some of those who have gone to training camps
and aboard warships are paying the same high and
glorious price. Thus far this toll of death has reach
ed but into the thousands The war-OUR SHARE
OF THE WARS still young. We must pay more
and more and more as we assume more and more OF
the war burdens rightly ours and which
being carried by our allies, the British and the French
Our Men in France Are
Writing New Epic of Freedom
None of us this day knows how many hundreds o:
thousands of our best and bravest-
"No more on Lfe's parade shall meet
But we do know that America will pay the full price
for freedom for ALL forever tho that price be millions
who must spread "on Fame's eternal camping ground
their silent tents.'
And now as we stand upon the threshold of another
Memorial Day, we of America who cannot go across
Ipledge ourselves that never will forget the debt
we to those who go. In all the years that to
come, we and children, and childrens chill
dren long they call themselves Americans, will
hold dearest OF all our memories this debt of graft
ltude. They heroes than whom the world never
produced greater. And so it is that as they are
writing with their very lifebood the newest, most
wonderful and most important chapter of nations
history they are giving new and greater and world
wide significance to the day we set apart over half
Ia century ago monument to our beloved and
hOnored dead.
| Those brave boys are making Memorial Day day
when all the peoples of the world who love liberty
and justice will unite in honoring those
| "Who heard the thunder of the fray
Break Ger the field beneath
Knew well the watchword of that day
"Was Victory or Death"
Day Now Becomes Wider
In Its Scope of Gratitude
| This is no longer a Civil War Memorial Day. It is
no longer day dedicated to the dead of the north
only For it now becomes a world war Memorial
Day, day when north and SOUTH east and west as
one scatter the blossoms of love and honor upon the
graves of those who have given all to make the world
free. It is the day when confederate veteran and
northerner stand shoulder to shoulder gazing
the great upon their sons fighting shoulder to
shoulder against their cOuntrys foe. We must not
forget that the first brave American boy who went
over the top and died as he reached The German
trenches the of a confederate soldier. We
must remember that Lee and Grant ia
khaki
| In time to come all the world now fighting for
liberty and the freedom of nations and peoples may
come to consecrate this day in which will be
laid aside all other thoughts and prayers for this:
! Crest on, embamed and sainted dead!
| Dear as the blood We gave;
No impious footstep here shall tread
| The heritage of your grave;
Nor shall your story be forgot,
While Fame her records keeps,
| Or honor points the hallOwed spot
! Where Valor proudly sleeps
grazed face felt his fra of Olympia; Swar OF
breath A1gye.
Ito his "Oh baby what OF
joy mother Paouse
said l him another hug
With him in went ~
back bed holding him on al ~