The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1919-11-06
TRIBUTE TO MEMORY
Of JOHN RASMUSSEN
Dorr Carroll Refers to Noble Charac.
ter of Minot Young Man Who
Gave Up His Life on Field
of Battle.

Memorial week, which was celebrat-
ed at the University of North Dakota
recently, was attended by many cele..
brated men, many Of whom delivered
brilliant addresses. The University
sent more than 700 men to the front
in the great world war, thirty-two of
whom made the supreme sacrifice, one
of whom was John Rasmussen, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. j. Rasmussen of this
city.
Dorr Carroll, Minot attorney, deliv-
cred the following eulogy for the Mi
not youth, who gave his all for the
cause of humanity:
The Chairman:
This week as we all know is recog-
nized as Memorial week, and last ev-
ening we had beautiful memorial
service out at the University, and as I
looked over the names of the boys
who left the University to give their
lives for freedom and democracy for
us who could not 60, l saw the name
of s. John Rasmussen. S. John Ras-
mussen was boy who grew up in
our town, and as I saw him grow up
and watched his development, growing
up as boys do, like weed in gar
den, so fast did he come to manhood,
and like beautiful flower he develop
ed suddenly into that sturdy manhood
which took him from here over there,
and knowing the boy as I did, and
knowing so intimately his thoughts
and his life as they were fore -shad-
owed in his boyhood essays and let
ters, and heard hir1 talk with his peo-
pie, and the way in which he always
pOnH11ofo6 hin, ,co1f I1o yroS i,,oro
tient to go to fight he waived aside
the opportunity Of going to an offic-
ers' training camp and enlisted as a
Army, in order that he might get over
there the sooner, and when we heard
he had gotten Over There, and heard
the reports from his comrades, they
told US how he had gone across and
penetrated the German lines, bring
ing back information to his people,
and when l learned that this boy ha6
been all through Chateau Thierry, and
had brought back map of every
street and alley way in that city to his
officers two or three weeks before our
attack was made and then when I
learned that he had made the great
sacrifice for us, great, noble, magnifi-
cent John Rasmussen, and then when
/ realized that we who knew him so
well, and that as much as we loved
him and missed him, that he was no
more and yet no less than the rest of
these marvellous boys who left us,
who had made that great sacrifice for
US, and I full well realized that all
the others who had gone over there
were willing and anxious to make that
great sacrifice just the same and it
seems pitiful and weak, and wrong,
that we people here, if you please,
should quarrel over the fruits of the
victory and quarrel over what shall
be done with this democracy which
they have given to us by making the
supreme sacrifice.
And so this evening we will again
take up the discussion of what should
be done, and the gentleman who gave
us such an interesting talk this after
noon on the political movement Of the
farmers in Canada, will tell us some
thing about their commercial move
ment this evening.
Let us always bear in mind this
fact, they have given this thing to us,
and have made the supreme sacrifice
for us, then let us be willing to give
and take in our political movement
over here. take pleasure in intro
ducing to you our friend from Can
ada, Mr.. George F. Chipman.
(Applause.