Norwich bulletin., 1921-07-11
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR
 SOLDIER DEAD AT PARIS

Hoboken. N. J., July 1o.-Leaders ON the nation mourned the country's war dAsd today at memorial services on the army piers here, where lay the oodles or 264 men who made the supreme saerl- flee on the fields of France.
 Congress sent joint committee head cd 1bv Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who snoke at the services. The army was renresented by Assistant Secretary or War Wainwright. and General Persnlns, who declared the freedom or manKiho was the battle cry of the fallen war riors.
 dreds of war veterans attended. Every unit that saw active service in France was reHresented among the dead. Direct 1 lv in front of the speakers were the cas- kets of the first three United States sol- | diers to die in battle against Germany | -rorno-al Herbert James D. Gresham | of FyansyilIe Indiana; Private Thomas P. Enright of Pittsburgh, Pa.' and Fri, Y, vac Merle D. Hay. of Glidden' Iowa. all members of the Sixteenth Infantry Flrst Division, and all killed In NoVemoeI 1s17, in the Isuneville section or. LOT ra:ne x. ,a ;rs+ice as did the founders of this great reDnblic" said General Pershing. The Freedom of mankind was their battle cry.
 "I saw them go forward wearied oi body, yet intrepid resolute and cheer1ui | of Snirit. Scornful of danger. they ad' vanced with undaunted courage. Only those who fought with them can ever know the heights of religious devotion and patriotism to which they rose.
 Senator Lodge said that 'to few oi Jus. there is a peculiar poignancy in thl: silent array of the dead, because we arc among those upon whom fell the griey' ous responsibility of declaring the war IT which these precious lives were lost NJ one who has not suffered that experience lean realize the pain and distress I
 brings"
 Be assured" he continued, that ther' Iare no men in this country who 60 dread
 so hate war as the senators and repre- lsentatives in congress upon whom Il imposed the duty of declaring war, l war must come" Funeral hymns and the national an
 them were sung at the service and pray CTS were said by Protestant clergyman
 Catholic priest and Jewish raoo
 General Pcrshing and Maurice Casenays Fre1ich hie.h commissioner, laid wreath upon the coffins of Corporal Gresham an Privates Enright and Hay. , When the solemn speeches and tn f songs of mourning had ceased, bugle played Taps"
 Then the relatives and the friends c
 many of those whose bodies had bee | brought back from the military cemeter f lies of France began to look for the col s fins that bore the remains of their love v ones. Each casket was numbered an s attendants directed kin and friends t
 the section of the pier which was tn
 temporary tomb of their dead.
 :, Today" sad General Pershing. W 7. see these thousands of caskets, each te: A tifying to the sacrifice of life itself, b t some young friend to give us peace an l. happiness. These were no common soul 8 Under each flag there lies one who va l. nurtured at the altar of an America l. home. And today his patriotic motht
 or wife mourns her gallant soldier.
 this hour no human heart could renal l. unmoved.
 NO words from human lips can d e fitting honor to the memory of thei is men. Their story will live to inspil If future generations of Americans dow d through the. ages. They gave all and g the giving, left us the fine example n r. only of how Americafs can die, but ho
 they should live. There only remain
 for us to place them tenderly In the
 last resting place and cover them wi r our gifts of flowers and our tribute
 tears. We shall leave them in son a beautiful spot where little children ms i come and learn what their fathers ha' IS done for their country and for the worl