The Nevada County picayune., 1920-05-27
NATION HONORS
 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 over those whose death is without meaning and end without result. For 1t 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 unfaltering belief Tn 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 tlle American cemetery nearest to Paris, at which Pres cent 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 its helpful accessory agencies, such as the Red Cross, so distinguish them selves as in their concern that the last resting place 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 SC lected at appropriate places as the official American cemeteries, will re ceive every attention that is their just due from their brothers In arms "oveI there" and a grateful country. The graves. all separately and singl! marked with the cross. or the star
 
 of rank being allowed in the identify ing symbol. will be decorated, one and all. And while much that has been devised as 10 the handling of these special cemeteries has followed the plan of the British, who have been at work at the problem much longer, yet q peculiarly American touch is given
 ti,i ,i- pra 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 a tall crass and plain altar stone. described by Kipling as "the Cross of Sacrifice and the Stone of Remem hrance," the stone bearing the inscrip ton, also suggested by kipling, Their name lveth forevermore. Save for this. the great concentration ceme teries of the American forces, such as -Hontfaucon. the largest containing 3G,O00 graves of those who fell In the Meuseargonne 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 10 he determined. But there is no queS ton of the monumental effect of the commemoration. nor will those who lie Tn the smaller cemeteries or in the little French churehyards be over looked today or in the years to come
 This Is all as 1t should be. And quite as those at home would wish 1t. And, as has happened In the case of the older celebrations. even though the day brings its 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 l 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, glorlfy all sense of duty and discipline and lift all life into the nobler channels of a human ity that is not, as Is writ of the beasts of the fields, without aim or hope"