Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-06-02
HEROIC DEAD OF THREE
WARS PAID HOMAGE DUE


passed throngs of people until rain
forced this group to disband at st.
Mary's school on Grand avenue. The
color bearers of the American Legion.
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, ex-
marines, and sailors followed together
with all ex-service men. The Girl Re-
serves of the Y. w. C. A. numbered
eighty and were next in line. 1t is
estimated that fully 300 ex-service
men participated in the parade. The
Boy Scouts numbered $50 and COM
posed an impressive unit. led by their
color bearers. The Eagles turned out
on masse with their drum corps and
drill team
At the cemetery the eight veterans
OF the G. A. r, were seated on the plas-
folm at the entrance to the grounds.
The 12S Infantry band played a selec-
tion, Love and Roses" and America
was sung. S. B. Tobey acted as mas
ter of ceremonies. The quartette
which had sung at the Court House
square again rendered a number,
Brave Hearts, Sleep On" most appro-
pirate to the occasion. following which
the Rev. F. W. Eastwood delivered
his eloquent address.
Histories Similar
"In many ways the history of an
cient Israel and the u. S. A. are SIM
liar" the speaker said. Each have
ance. 1t is good thing for nation
to make much Of it's heroes. To keep
alive the old days is a vital thing.
When an old soldier dies. there is an
historian lost. Much of history is
oral, being communicated from man to
man. / have listened to many Incl
dents of the civil war from members
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
also from veterans of the. Spanish-Am-
erican war, and lately brief glimpses
from the greatest war in history, the
world war, all of them incidents which
move one to action
when you get these men to talk,
we learn of history recorded nowhere
else. A small fight to many man is
his Waterloo, and many of them fell
with nothing to mark the spot, and fit
tingly might be inscribed over them
the words: Go and tell Sparta we
lie here, having obeyed her word
Gaily TO Death
"Men went gaily to their death from
1861 to 1865. To jolt in ambulances;
to lie down on cots in hospitals, and
fight flies, to be called by numbers and
not by name. A few days of such ex-
perience would make any of us willing
to take his hat off whenever he meets
a veteran of the Civil War. Let US
keep ever green in our memories the
death of our heroes, not only of the
Civil War, our Spanish-American war
but also our veterans of the bloodiest
war in history, known as the World
War.
"The old veterans are not all gone,
but we have new veterans, and new
reason for the observance of Memorial
day. Imagine every man wiped out of
city like San Francisco. Our loss
in Flanders totals that. Out of every
100 American soldiers, two died of dis
eases and wounds.
"They died for cause. They earned
the supreme decoration, a wooden
cross. The sword of militarism is
broken. Our task is to carry. They do
not want us to mourn them. Neither
should we ever forget them. They
kept their part with us and we must
keep our part with them. The voice
of our soldier. dead calls to us today
to finish the task, TO give liberty to the
whole world.
Leave Old Intact
"Why should we have this day?
First, it is our duty to keep in mem-
ory the fact of the price paid for our
nations liberty and countrys unity.
There are 1854 graves of fallen SOL
diers during the Civil War, thousands
of them unknown. New histories may
be written and new problems may be
solved, but the old must be left in
tact, its solution worked out in the
blood of our nations heroes. Beneath
the whispering grasses they are sleep
ing; the dead who died for us. Bedeck
their graves, not sorrowing, nor weep
ing, but with true soldiers pride. For
those who fell in death we glory and
for those who lived their space, let
there be kept place in song and story
while mankind honors man.
MAY we live for those who need us
and to whom we should be true-'for
the cause that needs assistance, for
the wrong that NEEDS resistance, for
the future in the distance, for the good
that we can do
1--WE should keep this day because
of its results. 1t will keep the fact
that we as citizens of this great nation
iboy yNb bt Ndit'd uPJn w Htlp OuI
fellows. The women who gave father
and husband and sons need to be re-
membered and in honoring the vet
erans we also honor them. Some tax
about womans sphere as though il
had limit. There is not a place in
earth or heaven. There is not task
% mankind given. There is not a
blessing or a woe. There is not life,
here is not a birth, there is Dot a
eather's weight of worth without a
woman in IL
'As we look back over our national
history we do so feeling that It has
)een good for us to have had such
'aliant ancestors to be surrounded to-
lay by veterans of three wars. The
aviours of our United States. The
aviours of the Cubans. The saviours
# Europe, especially of France. Stand
ng today in Gods acre we greet you,
veterans. And as a nation
We pay our tribute to our heroic dead.
Tay the spirit of these nohle mon ha