Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1921-11-24
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OF white stone that guards his body;
but his soul has entered into the
spirit that is America.
whenever liberty is held close in
mems hearts, the honor and the
glory and the pledge of high en-
deayor poured out over this name,
less one of fame will be told and
sung by Americans for all time.
Scrolled across the marble arch OF
the memorial raised to the Amerl-
can soldier and sailor dead every
where, which stands like a monu'
ment behind his tomb, runs this
legend:
"We here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain"
THE words were spoken by the
martryred Lincoln over the dead at
Gettysburg. 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 Tor the flag in France.
Great men in the worlds affairs
heard that high purpose reiterated
nv the man who stands at the head
of the American people.
Tomorrow they will gather i'll the
city that stands almost in the shao.
ow of the new American shrine OF
liberty dedicated today. They Will
talk Of peace; of the curbing OF the
havoc of war They will speak OF
the war in France that robbed TINS
soldier of life and name ana
brought death to comrades OF all
nations by the hundreds OF thou-
sands.
And in their ears when they met
must ring President Hardlngs decia-
ration today beside the flag wrap
ned, honor laden bier:
"'There must be, there shall DC,
the commanding voice OF cohscl-
Gus civilization against armed war
fare
Far across the seas, other UNI
known dead hallowed in memory by
their countrymen as this American
soldier is enshrined in the heart OF
America, sleep their last. lie III
whose veins ran the blood OF BTU
ish forebears lies beneath a great
stone in ancient Westminster AD-
bey: he of France beneath the ARC
de Triomphe, and he OF Italy under
the altar of the fatherland in Rome
And il seemed today that they, too,
must be here among the Potomac
hills to greet an American comrade
come to Join their glorious company
to testify their approval OF the ngh
words of hope, spoken by America
President.
"All day long the nation poured
out its heart in pride and glory 1or
the nameless American. Before the
first crash of the minute guns roar
ed its knell for the dead from the
shadow of Washington monument
the people who claim him as tneil
own were trooping out to do nm
honor. They lined the long roao
from the capitol to the hillside
where he slept tonight; they flowed
like a tide over the slopes about ms
burial place; they choked the
bridges that lead across the river
to the fields of. the brave in when
he is the latest conner. :,
GAS he was carried past through
the banks of humanity that lined
Pennsylvania avenue, solemn
reverent hush held the living walls
Yet there was not so much OF sor
row as of high pride in it all, q
pride being beyond the reach OF inc
Shouting and the clamor thai
marks less sacred moments in lie.
"Out there in the broad avenue
was simple soldier, dead for honor
of the flag He was nameless. nc
man knew what part iii the grea
life of the nation he had filled wher
last he passed over his home soil
But in France he had died a:
Americans always have been ready
TO die, for the flag and what l
means. They read the message o
the pageant clear, these silent thou
sands along the way.
"They stood in almost holy awe t
take their own part in what wa
theirs, the glory of the American
people honored here in the honor
showered on Americas nameles
son from France.
Army and navy and marines al
played their part in the thrilling
spectacle as the cortege rolled along
And lust behind the casket with 1t
faded French flowers on the drape'
flag, walked the President, the chos
en- leader of hundred millions il
whose name he was chief mourne
at this bier. Beside him, strobe tn
man under whom the fallen her
hal lived and died in France, Ger
eral Pershing, wearing only the sir
gle medal of victory that ever
American soldier might wear as hi
only decoration.
Then, row on row, came the me
who lead the nation today or hav