Bisbee daily review., 1920-05-30
Col. Greenway's Speech

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 Col. Greenway's Speech
 The spirit oi this day was well eX- pressed by some O. the Legion men who spoke in the schools of the dis trict at Decoration Day exercises cn Friday. Col John c. Greenway, speaking to the students of the Ho- race Mann and Douglas schools. said in part:
 No country is great unless it ap- preciates greatness, and 10 my mind | the great est and most loved men and women of all are the unselfish men ant women who responded to the cali of their country in the wars in vOlving this great Ration, and died in it's service. WhEn one speaks of dying for a country, one means dying | for the people in the country. That means you. This government was conceived in the idea of liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. This decla- ration and the adherance to these ! principles on the part of our liberty | loving people led them into bloody and exhaustive wars, and as ever | the sacrifice Of the flower of our | youth on the altar of our country. But they did not die in vain because you are today enjoying the benefits for winch they died. Your generation ! has not yet been called upon to re- spond to the call of righteous war, but having in your hearts the exam. ple of these unselfish dead, I krow that you will be no less ready to make the supreme sacrifice.
 T want to tell you about an incl dent that happened in France. The war was over. I was returning from the hospital by train to my port of embarkatiCn. When entering small crashed into the rear of an Emeri- can troop train Many American boys, who fought in the barbed wire and machine gun swept fields at Chateau ThieTry. St. Mihiel. Soissons and the Argonne were killed and many more wounded. Lying on cot under a sycamore tree, l saw an American machine gunner. a boy cro the southwest. Both legs were off; one arm mangled and life almost crushed from his body. Three splen- did French nurses, Angels of Mercy, stood around his cot. The rattle of death was in his throat He raised his eyes and they fell upon two flags. One the beloved flag of his own country, the United States, and the other the tri-color of France. His face lighted with a smile and he re- peated the stirring words of the pop ular song:
 | You're a grand old flag, You're high flying flag
 And forever in peace may you
 wave,
 1. You're the emblem of the land
 love,
 The home of the free and the brave.
 Every heart beats true under red, white and blue, | Where there is never a boast or a brag,
 But should aud acquaintance be forgot,
 Keep your eye on the grand old flag.
 Just before dying he murmered, ''It is hard to die this way after all | 1 have gone through, but I am willing | to go and am deeply grateful to shove 1 off under the folds of that flag That
  boy died for you. Will you remember i him on Sunday, Decoration Day? And will you let the mystic chords of nmemory enshine in your hearts the faces of all the dear. dead, gallant men who fought that you might live?' Mayor Charles McKean Mayor Charles McKean. speaking Ito the students of the Greenway and ! Lowell schools. said, in part:
 Just a few years since I came to l Arizona, among the first people met was a good family in Pearce. They had several little children children just as you. Time elapsed and this country was thrown into the most stupendous conflict the world r=.s--=:--..--.----.--=-- --.---------------