The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-11
MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD OVER BODIES. 7,264 WAR DE AD
Joint Congressional Commit tee Headed By Senator Lodge Take Part In Hon.
 bring Memory of Heroes
By Associat9d Press

Hoboken, July 10.-Leaders of the nation mourned the country's war dead today at memorial services on the army piers here, where lay the bodies of 7,264 men who made the supreme sacrifice on the fields of France.
 Congress sent joint committee headed by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, who spoke at the services. The army was represented by As- 1 sistant Secretary of War Wainwright and General Pershing, who declared the freedom of mankind was the bat tie cry of the fallen warriors. | The bodies of those who fell law in row upon row of flag draped cof- fins within the massive piers from which many of them had embarked for France.
 Scores of gold star mothers and hundreds of war veterans attended. Every unit that saw active service in France was represented among the laIdpt iClltIhly III IIOHl Ol lilt SDtdh- CTS we're the caskets of the first three United States soldiers to dle in battle against Germany--Corp, Herbert James D. Gresham of Evans vile, Ind Pvt Thomas r. Enright, 1 of Pittsburg, Pa, and Pvt. Merle D. ] Hay, of Glidden, la, all members ot the Sixteenth infantry, First division, and all killed in November, 1917, in l the I,tIueNillq section nf Iopruiue Fought for Eternal Right 1 They fought for eternal right and ] justice, as did the founders of this great republic" said General Persh- l ing The freedom of mankind was their battle cry
 l T saw some of them go forward wearied of body, yet intrepid, reso lute and cheerful of spirit, Scornful j Of danger, they advanced with ua- daunted courage to save weil-nsFh ] lost cause. Only those who fought with them can ever know the heights of religious devotion and patriotism to which they rose."
 Senator bodge said that Ito a few of us, there is a peculiar poignancy l in this silent array of the dead be- 1 cause we were among those upon whom fell the grievous responsibility of declaring the war in which these precious lives were lost. No one who has not suffered that experience can realize the pain and distress It brings"
 'Be assured" he continued, that there are no men in this country who so dread so hate war as the senators and representatives in Congress upon whom is imposed the duty of declaring war, if war must come.
 Senator Lodge said the American people owe it to their dead soldiers to keep their country on the upward path.
 We must never permit the great republic for which they died he said, Ito fail in withstanding the trials of the future, but always be ready to face undaunted, even as they did, do- mestic malice or foreign levy when ever peril comes"
 Prayers Are Said
 Funeral Aymns and the national anthem wefe sung and prayers were said by Protestant clergyman. Catholic priest and Jewish rabbi.
 General Pershing and Maurice Ca senave. French high commissioner, laid wreathes on the collins of Cor poraI Gresham and Privates Enright and Hay.
 When the solemn speeches and the songs of mourning had ceased, bugler sounded taps As the last note sounded pent-up emotions or hundreds of men and women were re- leased in sobbing.
 Then the relatives and friends or many of those whose bodies had been brought back from the military eem- eteries of France began to look Tor the collins that bore the bodies or their loved ones Each casket was numbered and attendants directed kin and friends to the section of the pier which was the temporary tomb ol their dead.
 Always. when the sought-for coll fin was found, there was scene ot pathetic tenderness. A gray-halreu
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