

In War 



relatively few of us left to-day in whose 

 hearts the scars of forty years ago 

 are still unhealing. But a new genera- 

 tion has grown up of men and women 

 born since the war. They have taken 

 the nation's problems into their hands, 

 but theirs are hands not so strong or so 

 clean as though the men that are stood 

 shoulder to shoulder with the men that 

 might have been. The men that died 

 in " the weary time " had better stuff 

 in them than the father of the average 

 man of to-day. ~"~ 



Read again Brownell's rhymed roll 

 of honor, and we shall see its deeper 

 meaning : 



"Alien, who died for others, 



Bryan of gentle fame, 

 And the brave New England brothers 



Who have left us Lowell's name ; 

 Bayard, who knew not fear, 



True as the knight of yore, 

 And Putnam and Paul Kevere, 



Worthy the names they bore; 



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