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company reached the objective which in 
the scheme of battle he was directed to 
reach, and await further orders. He de¬ 
ployed his command beneath the trees and 
bushes of the hillside and waited. No 
runner came, and no signal was given 
him. Everyone knows how soldiers dread 
the ordeal of standing still, especially un¬ 
der fire, as they then were. Finally he 
left his command, went to the rear to ob¬ 
tain further orders, and as he was return¬ 
ing a fragment of a bursting shell tore its 
jagged path through his brave young 
heart. Rising to his feet he rushed for¬ 
ward to his men and cried out: “Ser¬ 
geant, the command is ‘Forward,’ ” and 
sank lifeless. There is no spoken word 
which insures better morale, inspires more 
bravery, or generates more heroism than 
that command. Thus it is in war. Equal¬ 
ly true it is in peace. Under this com¬ 
mand, guided as you are by the best of 
trained minds, actuated as you are by no¬ 
ble and unselfish purposes, you will con¬ 
tinue to be in the future, as you have been 
in the past, a moulder of public sentiment, 
a stronghold of mutual helpfulness, and a 
positive upbuilder of this great State. 
