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Tomorrow marks the recurrence of that day which we have set aside for fifty years in memory of our gallant dead. The whole people with universal remembrance pays honor in its utmost to those who so freely died that their nation might remain unbound and undivided. They made the last dark sacrifice of life that this generation, and generations whose immensity we may not know, might enjoy the liberty and the strength of the great republic they had loved...
...citations mention gallant work performed by the men named in picking up and saving wounded men around Monastir under the heaviest of shelling. Hill's work at Hartmanswella-Kopf and Verdun also is mentioned...
...veteran of world-changing battles. In all truth it may be that which we might suppose would interest him the most will not stir him. He has seen so very much of war, so very much of soldiers, courageous, hardy, strong, that the sight of one more regiment, however gallant and well-trained it may be, could well cause small influence on him. What thought can he have of a thousand men? He has been in command of millions...
...there is disgrace in paying a citizen's duty to the army by law, there is disgrace in paying taxes by law, or in doing any other good service by compulsion. Does the Speaker think the gallant sons of France who are fighting in the cause of humanity are "disgraced" by their conscription laws? Or the brave, if misled, Germans? Or the later British soldiers now giving such a magnificent account of themselves...
...University members of the Corps, is given. Taylor reports that the University contingent that left for France last February is already hard at work on the western front. N. Wainwright '19 and K. Merrick '19 have been transferred from their original sections to Section 8, which did such gallant work during the heavy fighting at Verdun in May and June of last year. Taylor, together with W. K. B. Emerson '16, H. J. Kelleher '18, R. B. Varnum uC, and C. A. Amsden uC have been detached to Salonika to flH vacancies in Section 3, where the qualifications are especially...