The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-31
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commander Of the American Le-
gion Ladies' Auxiliary. Rev. FIR
Albert M. Hutting, Of st. Peters
Catholic church, asked the invo.
cation.
Glare A. Wigell's Mount Glen.
ems High school band opened and
closed the program by playing
THE Star Spangled Banner"
The High = 'elve Club Junior
Drum and Bugle Corps played
several selections, the most i'm
pressive being God Bless Amer.
lea"
Earlier. a Selfridge Field
squad fired a volley from the
Macomb street bridge while
marchers halted during the pa
rade. Following the program on
the library steps, services were
held at st. Peters Catholic GENE
terry with FIR. Hutting In charge
and at Clinton Grove cemetery,
with Rev. George Merifield, rec
tor of Grace Episcopal church,
officiating.
The parade moved at 9 a. m.
from the Gratiot- Market inter
section, thence down Market
to Second, and then to the Ma
comb street bridge. From the
bridge, the parade moved up
Macomb street to the library.
The line Of march follows:
State police car, drum and gle
corps. led by Sergt. Dick Helling,
city police led by Chief Arthur
I. Rosso, the city commission,
Marshal Griffith and Lieut.. Col.
Wells, Women's Relief Corps of
the G.. A. r., Spanish War veter-
ans, nurses from st. Joseph's
hospital. v. F. w., Ladies Aux
iliary, v. F. w., firing squad,
American Legion, Ladies Auxil-
larry American Legion, Boy
Scouts, others.
Lieut.. Col. Wells speech fol-
lows:
Fellow Americans, once more
we gather on this Memorial Day
in reverent remembrance of
those who, in years past, have
served in the defense of their
country and its democratic in
situations.
Memorial Day is distinctly
American. Its conception en-
bodied a patriotic desire to honor
those men and women who
through their sacrifices estab-
lished and maintained in times
of national crisis our American
way of life. Observance of
Memorial Day Is an expression
of that peaceful, liberty-loving,
democratic spirit which has
made America great.
To-day we are assembled to
observe this Memorial Day of
1941 during another time of ma
tional emergency. Only few
days ago our President pro-
claimed an unlimited national
emergency in the hope of fully
arousing our people to the
dangers present in our interna-
tional situation.
1T was but one short year
June, 194O-that most
Of us began to realize what the
battle of Flanders and the fall
Of France meant to lovers of
liberty. We have since seen an
reconstructed war
machine burst upon a startled
world. In one year we have wit
messed a perfectly integrated en-
CINE of destruction which utilities
every conceivable device of
science and politics as we'll as
art.
1--WE have seen q new tech
nique of diplomacy emerge. New
forms Of subversive propaganda
have been developed. New tao
tical methods, based upon i'm
proved weapons of war, have
been devised. Offensive employ
nent of mechanical equipment
On land and in the air has in
reduced the blitzkreig and the
uftwaffe, not only against mill
AIRY detectives but also against
civilians and unprotect-
I'd communities. We have seen
.hese devastating forces utilized
n the development of a formid-
able military machine which Is
being trained in actual warfare
against q succession of objec-
ives.
unfortunately. the democra-
lies did not read the handwriting
IN the wall. They were largely
Inprepared to compete success
July with such warlike develop
nents. On the continent of Eur
,pe the price of this military un-
preparedness was the loss of
liberty.
LAS / say, 1t was but q year
ago that our nation began to
'ealize the true situation con-
fronting us.We began to see that
night was in the saddle. The
hreat against constitutional gov
eminent became evident. Our
eaders clearly saw that the
United States must completely
'rm or the agyressors might in
iue time turn their war ma