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Excerpt from Memorial Day, 1907: Address of Porter H. Dale
E are met to recall events on which rests the hope of the Repub lic. It is a privilege to do this with you veterans who took part in the fierce struggle, and have lived to enjoy the long reign of peace that has followed it; and it is a pleasure for me to meet you in this way, not only because you have survived that critical stage in our history, but also because you include many old time friends, and compose Stetson Post, the first body of soldiers I ever addressed. It is fifteen years since that Sunday service in this place, and eleven years since the Memorial Day address here. Therefore, I am as one come home, after long absence, to meet once more you who remain of those with whom I first reviewed the war.
Thinking of those years stirs emotions among the deepest, and I am constrained to depart a mo ment from the specific theme of the day in reverent recollection of those who were of the youth and maturity and old age that made up the trustful, generous, loyal friendships of that time. The school with its fine pure young lives; the society with its devoted men and women coming out to more than a hundred public services; the place with experiences the most sacred for me that can ever touch the soul - all these thoughts beyond expression come back to us. Then over all the rest there comes to the spiritual self the memory of those whom, out of the years that intervene, you and I have lost a while, and among the sweetest blossoms we bring today, for them.
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