The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-05-30
Courage Marked All

The Rev. J. z. Pritchett delivered
the invocation and school children
sang America.
the Lavelle Gossett post Veterans Of
Foreign Wars.
A grassy noll in Memorial Park
Cemetery was dedicated as Legion
Hill. Sunday afternoon. by Irving
ton American Legion Post.
Commander Earl T. Bonham had
charge Of the ceremony. An Amer.
lean flag on a pole erected on the
hill stood at half mast in memory OF
dead heroes.
Dirt or France
Dirt from ne grave of an ex-
service man was presented Dr.
Samuel McGaughey. Irvington Post
delegate to the Paris convention in
September, who will scatter the
earth over the grave OF an Indian
apolis youth who died in France.
The Legion plans to place four ma
chine guns and TWO field guns on
the noll set apart by the cemetery
association.
The bugler and band Of the 18th
Infantry from FIT. Benjamin Har-
rison and Girl Scouts participated in
the services.
The Rev. Homer c. Boblitt. Lin
wood Avenue Christian Church pas
tor, delivered the dedicatory adj
dress. and the Rev. George w. ALI
son pronounced the benediction.
I'VE have met here to perform a
most solemn duty. BY the generos-
ity of the commissioners of this
cemetery this plot to be known as
Legion Hill has been donated as
burial place for our Nations dead.
TheAmerican Legion accepts this
gift inperpetuity as a sacred trust
and pledges its membership to its
future maintenance" said the Rev.
Bobbitt.
I'VE are here assembled to dedi-
cate this plot as a>festing place for
all those who hove offered their
lives on the altar of our Nation.
Earth from his hill will be borne
across the sea and with loving hands
will be sprinkled on the grave of
the Unknown Soldier in Flandey's
fields. Thus the soil from which they
came will claim its own under for
eign skies.
so here before this open grave,
flower embowered, under the Stars
and Stripes Of an endless glory,
amidst the memorials of war, the
bugle calls. the solemn drum beats
of the marsh, the challenging echo
of the firing squad. in the presence
Of our war veterans, we here dedi-
cate this spot to those who offered
their all, that our Nation might win
and maintain its post of leadership,
toward fairer day among the broth
erhood of nations.
Sacrifice for Others
But the spirit which called to
action every hero of every war in
America has engaged, has been that
of unselfish sacrifice for others. 1t
has been the sacrifice Of the strong
for the weak, Of the fit for the I'M
fit.
LAS we here dedicate this plot as
their final resting place, shall we not
also dedicate our own lives to this
same great principle of loving and
loyal sacrifice for our common
country. Let us pledge our lives to
making this nation worthy of their
sacrifice. Let us maintain the
Of its Constitution, the
sanctity of it's laws, the purity and
power of its churches. its schools and
its homes. Let us work in the days
Of peace to make our city. our COM
and our nation. worth
all their suffering and their life
blood
In an address before hundreds as
sembled at the Meridian st. over
Fall Creek bridge Sunday afternoon,
Mrs. Edna E. Pauley. national pa
trBtic instructor of the w. r. c.,
urged citizens to support the work
Of organization formed for aiding
war veterans.
There is nothing that can create
as much esteem as the aid offered
the Nations heroes by various pa
triotic organizations" she stated.
"The gatherings annually on Me-
mortal Gay serve to commemorate
those honored living and dead and
bring remembrance Of their deeds"
Mrs. Claudia K. Erther was master
of ceremonies. Services were gen.
orally for soldiers, sailors, marines
and airmen under auspices OF auxil-
larry of Sons of Union Veterans.
Airplanes in charge of Indiana Ma
.ionaI Guard, of the 18th Aero
flew overhead and drop
ped flowers in the water. and on the
bridge while the services were In
progress.
Invocation was given by the Rev.
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