DECORATION DAY
WEDNESDAY MAY 30 1888
More and more is made of
Decoration Day as the years go by and the time is not far distant
when the occasion will be a legal holiday as generally enjoyed and
respceted as the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving Day.
The day is largely devoted
to processions and the strewing of flowers than to a recital of the
great deeds of courage , self sacrifice , suffering and death
which are insoparaly associated with all memory of the buried heros.
Perhaps this will be
changed after the story of the Civil War by vertue of its age
becomes novel again to generations yet to be.
We hope that it will be
changed. It is a gracious and beautiful act to strew flowers upon
the soldiers graves but it is our sacred duty to tell, again and
again , so that it will never be forgotten nor less thought of , the
story of the of the war for the Union and Confederacy and the brave,
consciously, courageously faced and met death because of their love
of their ideas.
Let us today, while
honoring the heroic dead , remember the ones who still live among
us, the mothers and widows, of men who fell at the front.
The county can never repay
the men and women who saved it from disruption . Let there be
flowers and flags until the end f time.
Source: Wilmington Evening
Journal, Wednesday, May 39, 1888, Wilmington Delaware. Abstract May
20, 2017, Lewes, Delaware, Harrison Howeth.
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