Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1918 — OUR SOLDIER DEAD [ARTICLE]

OUR SOLDIER DEAD

One day in each twelve mouth ■ we are accustomed to devote t the memory of those who, by their sacrifice and devotion, made ]> ■— sible for us the comforts and blessings we now enjoy. If grateful thoughts of these martyred heroes were not often in our hearts, this one day’s devotion out of the twelve-month would be but a mockery, considering the magnitude of our debt to them. But with everrecurring thought Of their great service present in our hearts, this day becomes but the flowering of a beautiful devotion and an ennobling love.

There is little of tribute that has not already been said of these noble dead, and we can on this occasion but echo the words of writers and orators who have preceded us in this mission. But America has, across the deep waters, on the battle fronts where the roar and crash of war never ceases, other thousands of brave souls who have gone forth to protect and preserve that which, these, out departed heroes so dearly bought for us—liberty. Their breasts are today bared to as savage a foe as ever brave hearts faced and conquered. They are there “with the iron resolution to figiht to victory or death. They stand between their loved ones and a fate too horrible to contemplate.

While we strew flowers above the ashes of our dead heroes, what shall pe the tribute that we rend acrosgVne waters to these our noble defenders? Shall it not ,-be the firm faith of a united nation, that in the power of God and the right they will win, and that in the land they have left one hundred millions

of iheir :7«- wilt continually pray and su-enluf* without ceasing, that i:.ir arm- siuiy be strong and their icaiir lira 1 - toe tile glorious task r fT- —-*)