The Cordova daily times., 1920-05-28
NATION H0N0RS
 ALL HER HEROES
Memories of Veterans of Three Wars Are Enshrined in
 Country's Heart.

the veterans of three wars; but, though newly consecrated by the fresh and poignant sacrifices of those who passed away in the great war of liber atiOn lover there" there cannot be now, any more than in the past, any associations but those of true joy and honorable pride, far removed from the despair of causes lost, or from griefs a over those whose death is without meaning and end without result. For it is the holy joy of those who know that the sacrifices were not in vain that distinguished this day of days this year, coupled with the realization that both those who went and those who remained joined freely in the OblatiOn on the altar of the country with an unfaItering belief in the fine nobility of the obligation and the deep significance of what it meant for the common good.
 While the ceremonies on this side follow the usual lines, heightened by the opportunity to pay fresh homage where homage is due, the tribute that is paid lover there," beginning with the ceremony at Suresnes, near which has been developed the American cemetery nearest to Paris, at which President Wilson Officiated last year, in the very presence of the dead them selves, takes on an especially moving character For in nothing did the American eXpeditiOnary force and all it's helpful accessory agencies, such as the Red Cross so distinguish them A selves as in their concern that the last resting piace of those who fell abroad should be neither unknown, unmarked nor unhOnOred. As a result of this determined and consecrated effort of all services, the new graves of the hero dead, be they located where they fell, or removed to the permanent centers of burial that have been se- lected at appropriate places as the official American cemeteries, will re ceive every attention that is their just due from their brothers in arms lover there" and a grateful country. The graves, all separately and singly marked with the cross, or the star, save in name and title, no distinction of rank being allowed in the identify ing symbol will be decorated, one and all And while much that has been devised as to the handling of these special cemeteries has followed the plan of the British, who have been at work at the problem much longer, yet peculiarly American touch is given in that this annual commemOration of Memorial day, so familiar to us all, is new to our allies, and to the French. though they have gladly cO-Operated with the American forces in order to make the day truly notable one and one of general and significant com memOratiOn.
 So far as the general cemeteries go we have followed the British in the plan for the separate graves, but they have gone little further in that each large burying place will be dominated by 8 tall crass and plain altar stone, described by Kipling as "the Cross of Sacrifice and the Stone of Remem- brance," the stone bearing the inscrip- tion also suggested by Kipling, "Their name liveth forevermore. Save for this, the great concentration ceme- teries of the American forces, such as Romagne-sur-Mont the largest, containing 36,O00 graves of those who fell in the Meuse-ArgOnne battles, will represent little more than the sim plicity of Quaker burying grounds, since the permanent memorial mOnu- ments that may be erected are yet to Ne determined. But there is no Ques- tiOn of the monumental effect of the cOmmemOratiOn, nor will those who lie In the smaller cemeteries or in the little French churchyards be oyer looked today or in the years to come.
 This is all as it should be. And quite as those at home would wish it. And, as has happened in the case of the older celebrations, even though the day brings it's fresh and deeper sOr- rows, at the same time there must be felt everywhere the comforting sense that the country and those who have passed away were equal to their task in the world crisis. It is but meet and proper, therefore, that all should insist that wherever they may lie each and all who paid the final debt shall be marked from among their fellows, dead and living, by such seemly and ceremonial observances as we have set up here for generations and are now repeating abroad. Respect and Recognition for what they did and proper honors for the hero dead lend dignity to the living, glorify all sense of duty and discipline and lift all life into the nobIer channels of a human ity that is not, as is writ of the beasts of the fields, without aim or hope" but serves understandingly and not in vain.
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