Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-11-12
NATION JOINS IN
HIGHEST TRIBUTE
TO WARRIOR DEAD
Pledge of High Endeavor
Poured Out Over This
Nameless One.
II.
PRESIDENT MOVED IN
SPEECH AT ARLINGTON
Foch, Pershing, Jacques, Diaz
Join in Silent Trib.
ute TO Hero. .4;Ai
HE SLEEPS on SOIL OF FRANCE
\ Hast of Gunhrc, n BugIe Call.
and "Tnp," Is Sounded
Over Him.
PRESIDENT MOVED IN
SPEECH AT ARLINGTON
HE SLEEPS on SOIL OF FRANCE
n HAST of Gunnrc, n BurIe Call
md "rnp," Il Sounded
Over Him.
tBy Associated rress.1

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.-Iynaer
the wide and starry skies OF his own
homeland. America's unknown dead
from France sleeps tonight, a sol.
dier home from the war.
Alone he lies in the narrow cell OF
stone that guards his body. but hi,
soul has entered into the spirit that
Is America. Where every liberty. Ia
held close In mems hearts tho honor
ana the glory and the pledge OF high
endeavor poured out over this nan,e.
less one of fame will be told ana
sung hy AMERICANS for. all time.
Scrolled across the marble arch of
me memorial raised to American sol-
cier and sailor dead everywhere.
which stands like n monument be-
"'iu ms tSmb. runs this legend:
In the Words or Lincoln.
we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain"
The words were spoken by mar.
tyred Lincoln over the dead at Get.
tysburg. And today. with voice,
strong with determination and ring
ing with deep emotion, another
President echoed that high resolve
over the coffin OF the soldier who
died for the flag In France.
"reat men In tho worlds affairs
heaN that high purpose reiterated
oy 'he man who stands at the head
OF the American people. Tomorrow
'heS Will gather In the city thar
s'"hds almost In the shadow of tho
new American shrine Of liberty dcdi-
Gated today. They will talk of ne,co
OF the curbing of the havoc of w,r
lhcy VIII speak of the war in Franco
that robbed this soldier of life ,nd
name and brought death to comr.do.
OF all nations by the hundreds or
thousands. And in their ears when
'neE meet must ring President Hard
ihss declaration today beside thar
ia wrapped. honor-ladcn bier.
mere must be. there shall be, tho
'o'n'h"hdihs voice of Il conscious
'N'''""'ioh against armed warfarc."
"thcr Unknown Dead.
rar across the seas other unknown
'e'u' narrowed in memory by their
'ouhlrSmen as this American soIdIor
10 ehshrined in the heart or Americ.
s'eep their last He i'm whose veins
ran the blood OF British forbears
,,cS beneath great stone in ancient
Westminster Abbey: he OF Froncs
beneath the Arc dc Triomphe. and
he OF Italy under the A.yar. of IN.
fatherland In Rome And IT sce,ed
today that they. too. must be hero
among the Potomac hills to greet
an american comrade come 10 toin
their glorious company, TO t.stif,,
,"etr approval OF the high words OF
nope spoken by Americas President
All DAY long the nation poured out
IT'S heart IN pride and glory for the
hameless American. BEFORE thu 6rst
crash or the minute guns roared its
hheil Tor the dead from the shadow
OF washington Monument, the peo-
PIE VINO claim him as their own we're
,roopinE out to do him honor. They
lined the long road from the Cant
toi TO the hillside. where he sleeps
tonight; they flowed like n tide over
the slopes about his burial nlace.
they choked the bridges that lead
across the river to the fields of tho
brave in which he is the latest.
AS he was carried past through
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