The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1932-05-13

A month later he was on an army transport
that steamed through the Golden Gate into the
broad Pacific. The next year he was one of
detachment which set out from a little Philip
pine village in pursuit of party of Moro
raiders
There was, deathlike hush as they pushed
on through the steaming heat Of the jungle. A
moment later it's stiffness was shattered by the
sounds of men engaged in furious hand to-hand
combat-bayonet against bolo-a swarm Of little
brown men clawing at a group of swearing
desperately-strugglipg khaki-clad figures and at
last bearing them down to earth by sheer force
of numbers.
A few months later, back in the Colorado
mining camp which chung precariously to the
rocky slope of the mountain, a band was play
ing necessarily "There'll Be a Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight" For the troop Of "our boys
was home from the wars.
But out in the province Of Sulu rusted Krag
Jorgensen rifle and a webbed cartridge belt, al
ready nearly hidden by the lush jungle vegeta
ton, marked the last resting place of one who
didn't come home-an Unknown Soldier Of '9S
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n TOVEMBER IL, 1922. In Arlington GENE
M terry a great throng stood with barred
- heads as bugler blew Taps" over
new white marble tomb in which had been
placed the body Of dead warrior.
Who was he?
No one can say. For his is the eternal mys
terry.
The lettering on his tomb betrays no word OF
his identity. 1t says simply: Here rests in
honored glory an American soldier known but
to God"
He is "The Unknown Soldier" of the World
war.
He is the man whom we have exalted out OF
humanity into sainthood."
Since that day ten years ago when they en-.
shrined his dust in marble at Arlington and his
spirit in the heart of America men and women
of every station in life have bowed their heads
reverently in the presence of his last resting
place. To it have come the great of other
countries-the queen of European royal house
princes, field marshalS, lord admirals, states
men. None has been too great to pay him HON.
age.
Orators and poets have tried in all-tooinade-
quate words to pay fitting tribute to his mem.
DRY. But the only real tribute to him is the I'M
voiced one in the hearts of his felow-Amer-
leans. To them he has given Memorial day
new meaning. For on that day their thoughts
turn to his tomb as the shrine upon which is
offered Americas tribute to her soldier dead
and more especially to the Unknown Soldiers
Of all her wars
We cannot decorate their graves in accord
ance with the Memorial day custom, for they
are scattered far and wide over the face of
the globe Some of them fell before Indian bull
let and lance on the wind-swept plains of the
Great West Some of them died in China, in
Cuba, in the Philippines. in Mexico. Some of
them went west" on the battlefelds of France
and Belgium.
So in alien soil they keep their lonely "bivou-
&C Of the dead" and while we cannot pay them
the same honors on Memorial day that we do to
the others who gave their lives for their coun-
try we can offer up to them our tribute of
gratitude by remembering on that day what they
did even though we do not know who they were
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