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...around all "sanctums" and "holies of holies," that makes them doubly attractive on account of their very sanctity. At certain colleges, no doubt, half the lure of secret societies lies in their forbidden buildings; just as in an earlier age the vulgar stood in curious wonder outside the inner shrine which only the initiate could enter...
...Farnsworth have just returned from France where they attended the consecration ceremony of the memorial cemetery which they have established at Souain. This shrine is dedicated to the memory of Henry Farnsworth and stands in honor of the first American soldiers killed...
There are still plenty of means for devoting this money to its original purpose. It is more fitting that aid should be given to the disabled who are living, than that a shrine should be built for the dead. The United States is far behind England in her care for the wounded and disabled. There cannot be too much done to aid our wounded men to learn a vocation. If all the money cannot be used here, there are crying needs in Europe to help suffering peoples. If the American people could only see and feel the misery that exists...
Today the French nation is honoring her noble dead by interring the veterans of an unknown Poilu in the Are de Triomphe. England likewise bows in reverent memory of her heroes by placing the body of an unknown "Tommy" in her most famous shrine, Westminster Abbey...
That honors men who fell at Freedom's shrine...