The L'Anse sentinel., 1923-05-18

of their kindness TO the aged and inirm, of their
romping over the barbed wire entangements and
jumping the trenches and storming the pill-boxes
and routing the Hun. And they will go on Me-
mortal day to the American cemeteries to strew
flowers and to bless the nation that came with her
men and her women; her material, money and effi-
cfency-the nation that fed the hungry, succored
the Injured and freed the world
Full soon the shell holes fill with grass
And battefeds and shell holes pass
into the mist of yesterdays
But still there fingers word phrase
touch OF Western breezy slang
To lend Provencal speech a tang.
Stern battles though the flags be furled,
WI WI boon boom In "say-ril tell tell the worid"
VIII fash In "Listen!" and Good nghtw
Boy faces grinning wstfui. kind,
With each brisk phrase will come to mind:
Boy faces, grim and gray and drear
That still could manage "Whoops, my dearr
Who called the worlds worst "the fuss"
In vivid speech fncongruous:
And caroied: 'Biooeyi what's the oddsfs
Reduced the hell of Marne and Roye
TO crisp and long-recaIled patois.
Those boys who said. so this is Francei"
And, gayly gallant. took chance"
There was parade up Fifth avenue of the
Seventy-ffth division of the A, E. F. Far ahead of
Maj. Gen. Robert Alexander and his staff in front
even Of the police escort, marched 30 men, each
carrying banner bearing 100 gold stars. Behind
these 80 men and the banners with the 5000 gold
stars was gap three blocks long. Said a thick
witted man in the reviewing stand:
"Why, these banner-bearers are out of place"
"You fool" stormed his nelghbor 'The dead are
passing now"
If all the patriot dead look upon the services Of
Memorial day. there is host indeed. For It is
almost century and half since the struggle to
gain and maintain our freedom began.
BY the rude bridge that arched the food
Their Flag to April's breeze unfurled
Here the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world
There were giants in those days and no Amer,
can but is the better American for thinking of
them--washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin.
Sherman and Livingston, who drafted the Declara-
tion of Independence; Alexander Hamilton; Ma
than Hale, who regretted that he had but one life
to give for his country Greene, who outwitted
and outfought Cornw als; George Rogers Clark.
who took and held the northwest to the Mssissip-
pi (; JOHN Paul Jones. t'tT
Tn the war of 1872 the Constitution and the
United States and the American privateers out
sailed and outfought the British the seas to the
astonishment of the world Andrew Jackson won
the Battle of New Orleans-a decisive American
battle that saved us the Mississippi And the sue.
cessful defense Of Fort McHenry called forth
Francis Scott Keys national hymn. "The Star
Spangled Banner:"
OF thus be II ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the wars desola-
p,est with victory and peace. may the heav.n-
rescued land
Praise the power that hath made ana preserved US
a nation
Than conauer we must when our cause II fs inst
And The star-spangled Banner In triumph shall
DER the land of the free and the home Of tn.
brave
Another generation and the war-drnms bear
again and the bugIes blew. "On to Mexicol" Pale,
Alto. Resaca. Buena Vista, Monterey and Chapul.
tepec are names to conjure with even now In the
short and brilliant Mexican campaign Winfield
Scott won fame Zachary TayIor's record made
him President. There Grant earned his first lau-