Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — Our Nation's Heroes. [ARTICLE]

Our Nation's Heroes.

On Memorial day a thrill runs through every little hamlet in the land. Instinctively our thoughts turn to the little mounds beneath which sleep the nation’s dead. Ten thousand preachers tell ten million worshipers to honor the Blue and the Gray. Temples grand and cross-roads chapels ring with patriots’ hymn and national anthem. Somehow the very flowers breathe a fragrance that makes the blood flow a little faster. The reason Is ’tls Memorial day and the nation honors her warrior dead. We think of them with awed reverence. We follow the crowds, the band plays, orators extol, and little children place flowers beside the Stars and Stripes of the veterans.