The Nome nugget., 1924-11-15
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ercan Expeditionary Forces, with 5000 names of those who died in France. forms fitting pedestal for the time-deying tribute their gaantry raised by living comrades
 The memorial majestic in simplicity, springs from wide stone base just over the road from tho gray old bulk of the State. War and Navy building. It is set on a broad lawn that rolls away carpet to the smooth-flowing Potomac, just beyond All about stands clusters of trees that break the ronotonv of the great sweep of green and share telling unborn generations of Ameri- valor and glory peer the sky-ponting of Washington Monument and the distant stately grandeur of Lincoln Memorial.
 Far away. beyond the river. framed among the crowding greens and first autumnaI tones that deck the Virginia hills stands the Memorial Ampitheater at Arlington Cemetery. It Is there, sleeping in lonely glory on the wide terrace that the Unknown Comrade keeps his endless watch. It may be that his name is written among those thousands clus- tering the great tablets of the First Division dead None will know; for it is his greatest glory that he sleeps unknown.
 It is spirit of mourning that has prompted che veterans the First Division pay this honor to their dead There is no hint of sorrow in the q It is raised in calm acceptance that code which bids free Americans hold their lives not too great price pay that their countrymen down the may live always free and iiberty-ioving of the Flag.
 There a graphic portrayal of that code is the pose of the winged figure of victory that tops the slender granite shaft of the memorial It stands with the bronze-wrought folds of the Flag for which these gallant dead fell swept aloft in the lifted right hand. It is poised though to step forward again in moment. forward toward the vision of high destiny that shines before the lifted, exalted And it pauses. here above the fallen, the left hand is spread downward in proud benedction though the winged figure would say those whose scrolled be low Well done thou good and faithful servant"
 Inset in the square stone work at the base of the shaft itself the of French villages and rivers that enshrined among the proudest memories of Americans. They form the simple record of the battle grounds which the First Division fought it's which fell the ',5s6 men whose names are graven below on the tablets sommerviller, Ansauville. Cantigny, Montdidier-Noyon, soissons-Aisne Marne. St. Mi hie Meuse-Argonne, Sedan, the names each hallowed in American hearts for the American blood shed there. the high valor and dauntess olution to press toward victory that Americans carried with them through the grim struggles Then comes the last entry "Cobenz Bridgehead." the written symbol of the great victory
 Over another face of the stone work the legend of the First Division Association setting that the memorial is to those comrades "who gave their lives in the World War that liberty and the ideals of country might endure" And still another taken from General Order No 2O1. American Expeditionary Forces written when the tigny to stir allied hearts hope and courage because American fighting manhood had again proven itself to make certain ultimate victory. in General Pershings proud words of approval:
 ''The Commander in Chief has noted in this Div ision special pride of service and high state of morals never broken by hardship nor battle."
 In form the memorial is simple column that lifts the honor point of the Flag nearly 80 feet above the ground level It is of ight-colored granite surmounted by square stone proportioned the column below and which forms the pedestal for the heroic victory figure. hemeted and with flowing, graceful draperies that with the lifted wings. give it hint of life and motion that sweeps away any suggestion of sorrow.
 The figure is the work of Daniel Chester French It is of bronze and is perched great bronze ball to set it of. Newly set it's high place. it is now bright in golden coloring. but time will soften it's tones time can but add new lus- ter to the glory of the whose rank ed m the tablets below names like those O. Hen