The Alaska daily empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1912-1926, 1922-05-16
MEMORIAL DAY WILL
BE OBSERVED; ENTIRE
WORLD TO TAKE PART
CONTINUED From Page One)

Allied veterans Wa1 are buried IN
the cemeteries Ct tAis country. lie
gion posts in Franc. Belgium, Poland
and Turkey will visit Old battlefields
and adjacent cemeteries.
Hugh Task Completed
The United States graves regisora-
ton service has completed its huge
task of returning to this country the
bodies of 42.023 Of the a. e. +.
who died overseas, but 10000 Ameri-
cans still remain permanently bur
led in cemeteries Of the Allied ma
lions.
"To finance the Memorial Day
decoration of graves overseas, each
of the Legion's IL, 900 posts was ask
ed to subscribe an amount equal to
five cents for each of its members.
| A central committee Of the Legion in
France will receive the funds from
this country and have charge Of deco
rating the individual graves.
Several months before Memorial
Day Hansord MacNider national
commander of the Legion, sent each
post a request that exercises this
year be made as personal as pos
siblp. with this end in VIEW" Mr..
! MacNider wrc'e. "the Legion is ready
to make special efforts to aid rela-
Iiives and friends who think on Me-
mortal Day not so much of the whole
army OF the dead as they will OF
some one youth who went forth to
| fight and did not come back. Gold
star parents. desiring that especial
attertion be paid to the grave of
their departed, requesting a certain
| type of floral decoration or religious
ceremony, were asked to communi-
cate their wishes to the organiza-
TONS national headquarters here,
from which they were relaycd to the
Legion post nearest the place of
burial
All Graves Decorated
1.-THE Legion viii not confine its
exercises and decorations to the
memory OF World War heroes alone.
The graves Of all veterans of all
American wars will be visited and
decorated and fittingly honored. Last
year the organization requested its
posts and units of the Legion Auxil-
larry to seek out. in each community
graves of all American soldier and
sailor dead and to prepare charts
showing whore such gtaves were To-
Gated and how they could be reached.
The efforts of the World War men
have resulted in many graves of
Civil War Veterans being rescued
from obscurity and tho graves of
several Veterans of 1912, long since
forgotten, have been found and re-
stored.
"A similar plan of keeping a close
and hOnored watch on graves of
Americans buried overseas has been
evolved. There will be in France
four principal cemeteries wherein
men of the A. f. F. will sleep for
ever At present a special Fine Arts
commission is working on the project
which will entail. for the collection
of bodies and the Identification of
NS'ANS~'AN'' bll tApChbAtuAt Va iiloi
than $1,000, 900. Those fields of
honor will be located at Bellcau
Wood, near -Chateau-Thierry; Bony,
near 81. Quentin; Suresnes, near
Paris, and ROMANCE, in the Argonne,
near Montfaucon More than 500
Americans will remain buried in
England. A gift of land by the Brit
ish government allows for the future
decoration and care of these graves.
Under plans already advanced a lit
tie cemetery for those Americans
who died in England. Ireland, Scot
land and Wales will be located at
Brookwood, Surrey. England.
This year still fewer of the proud, !
whitc-haired old heroes of '61-65 will |
bear their eOlors and their flowers to |
the sacred ground where their com
rades are in eternal bivouac. Last |
year the thinning ranks were filled |
with sturdy. tanned youngsters in |
their army drabs and navy blues |
who Wore honorcd to march at, the
side of the veteran patriarchs on |
their holy mission. The present Me
mortal Day will find the hosts OF |