Norwich bulletin., 1921-05-31

New York May 30.-Tens of thous- [ ands of veterans o fthe Civil. Spanish ! and World wars marched today in po- rades throughout Greater New York in honor of the dead they had left behind them on the crimsoned soil Of battlefields and under the white-hecked waters of the sea. Joining hands with them beneath the Stars and Stripes were allied patriots who during the recent conflict went 10 tn efront in the khaki of Canada. the kilts of Scotland and the horizon blue ot France.
 The nurses who cared for the wound | cd and welfare workers who lent aid and comfort to weary and hungry fighters also donned their uniforms and trod along behind the countless bands which 1 played martial music all the day.
 Everywhere in the city flags flew st half mast. From each Of the greater forts guarding the harbor the Memorial Day salute of 21 guns boomed forth al noon. Out in the Hudson river the flag ship of seventy destroyers joined in the chorus
 Hundreds of grey-haired warriors who defended the Union in '6l headed this
 pageant. which for three hours passed
 beneath the elms and naples that shel-
 ter fashionable Riverside Drive Age
 idh bent loN lnt SnohlurfS or many or
 these heroes of Gettysburg and Bull
 Run. but they dressed their ranks and
 sipiritedly obeyed the command Eyes
 eft as they passed the reviewing stand The guard Of honor for Major Gen eral Robert Lee Bullard. who reviewed
 the parade. comprised the veteran corps , of artillery and the old guard. FluuerinE in the various parades were i old war flags. some torn Tn the connic, , between soil and still others tattered ir f France. With each group Of veterans : came band. The hlue-uniformed mar
 of 61 kept step to Marching Throucf Georgia" and Yankee Doodle"
 Hot Time in the Old Time Tonight
 hared from the band that marched at tn , head of the Spanish War Veterans ii n their blue campaign shirts and khsk / brooches
 5 And then the veterans Of a later an,
 ghastlier war-psthos set to U8gtime L for which the survivors of a world con ', flict-many of them with emtpy sleeve. s many of them so gravely injured ths l. they had 10 ride-na rched bands ths - played the syncopated music that ha r runE out on the battlefelds of Farnce- II lively. cheerful notes for an army Of gal n lant lads who had mocked death. e In all the psrades special honor va |, paid gold star mothers One of thes
 d if sea-cast flowers upon the waters of th l. Hudson. while wsrcrsft fired a memor d al salute.
 l. The dead Of three centuries who sIee
 in historic Trinity churchyard were nc
 forgotten. Over the graves of those wh
 died in the Revolutionary war-the fir, Y of the many who have made the suprerr sacrifice for America-were placed th , thirteen starred Betsy Ross flags. Posts or the American Legion. vel - erans of foreign wars and other organ "A cations planted memqrial trees in eac 'e of the boroughs. many churches observe \. the holiday with special services. u Ten thousand persons viisted the res 's ing place of Theodore Roosevelt at ov 'h ter Bay and as many more filed in an
 out of Grants Tomb.
 .. Harbor craft was crowded with thou y" ands who steamed down the bay to vic v the immense wreath placed about q 'S shoulders of the Goddess of Liberty. Tv
 hundred electric bulbs were shining t
 night among the popies and evergree,
 compos'ng the wreath Above them f, T torch of liberty showed it's light up,
 the shoulders of the goddess