Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-05-24

of their kindness to the aged and nfirm, of their
romping over the barbed wire entanglements 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 ELL
ciency-the nation that fed the hungry, succored
the injured and freed the world.
Full soon the shell holes fill with grass
And battefelds and shell holes pass
Into the mist of yesterdays;
But still there fingers word phrase
touch of Western breezy slang
To lend Provencal speech tang.
Stern battles, though the nags be furled,
Will boom in "Say-I1 tell the world"
And sparks of many valiant fight
Will fash in "Iisten' and Good nightFs
Boy faces grinning wistfu1 kind
With each brisk phrase will come to mind;
Boy faces grim and gray and drear,
That still could manage s'Whoops, my dearis
Who called the worlds worst war "the fuss"
In vivid speech homogeneous;
Who joked like boys and fought like gods
And caroled: "Blooey! What's the odds?'
Reduced the hell of Marine and Roye
TO crisp and long-recaI1ed patos.
Those boys who said $50 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 80 men. each
these 80 and the banners with the 5000 gold
ctars was gap three blocks long, Said a thick
witted in the reviewing stand
'sWhy these banner-bearers are out of place."
''You fool" stormed his neighbor '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 a century and half since the struggle to
gain and maintain freedom began.
BY the rude bridge that arched the food
Their Flag to Aprils breeze unfurled
Here once the embattled farmers stood
And fired the shot heard round the world.
There were giants in those days and no A1ner.
can but is the better American for thinking Of
them-W Washington, Jefferson, Adams Franklin
Sherman and Livingston who drafted the Declare
ton 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 Corvallis; George Rogers Clark
who took and held the northwest to the Missssip-
pi: John Paul Jones.
In the War of 1912 the Constitution and the
United States and the American privateers out
sailed and outfought the British the seas to the
establishment of the world. Andrew Jackson won
the Battle of New Orleans decisive American
battle that saved US the Mississippi And the sue
cessful defense Of Fort McHenry called forth
Francis Scott Keys national hymn, 1.-THE Star
Spangled Banner"
O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their loved homes and the vars desola-
ton:
Rlest with victory and peace. may the heav'n-
praise the power that hath made and preserved us
a nation.
Then conquer we must when our cause it is just
And The Star spangled Banner in triumph shall
wave
DER the land of the free and the home of the
brave.
generation hnqf
again and the bugles blew, "On to Mex1co!" Palo
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 Taylors record made
him President. There Grant earned his first lau-