Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1916 — Debt Must Never Be Forgotten. [ARTICLE]

Debt Must Never Be Forgotten.

The American people have been patriotic beyond the example of other nations in providing for those who left home and all its comforts, business and all its prospects, life and all its ambitions, to fight for the flag, for the Constitution and the Union. This is as it should be, and until the last man who “fought that good fight” is laid away in mother earth forever, we hope the American people will never forget for a moment the debt they owe to the valor and endurance of those who fought the nation’s battles in those days now growing dim even in memory. Their graves should be kept green with the tears of a grateful people, and as each Memorial day comes around in the year, flowers, the sweetest and brightest, should be strewn profusely ov£r the graves where the patriot dead lie sleeping “the sleep that knows no waking’' on earth and in time.