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May 27, 1921
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico
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President Warren G. Harding's 1921 Memorial Day message to the American Legion, released in New York, honors past U.S. military sacrifices and expresses optimism for a peaceful future with reduced need for national sacrifices. (187 characters)
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HARDING VOICES HOPE FOR PEACE IN THE FUTURE
President Sends Stirring Memorial Day Message to American Legion; Sees Golden Years Ahead.
(By The Associated Press.)
New York, May 26.-President Harding, in a Memorial day message to the American legion, made public tonight, expressed hope that the future would bring less need for national sacrifices. The message follows:
"Americans have never been much given to the establishment of holidays and fete days. Perhaps our national life has been so short, and entirely within so matter of fact and practical a period of the world's history, that we have been little moved by the sentiments that such occasions inspire.
"Yet, I think no nation has ever established a national day of consecration that represented a more lofty and ennobling sentiment than does our national memorial day. To its observance we have brought the full measure of sincere reverence and gratitude that a great people is ever to entertain for those who have made the great sacrifice in its behalf.
"Memorial day marks our recognition of those who, from our national beginnings, have deserved the most that the nation could give of gratitude and appreciation. It reminds us that in every generation, from Lexington to the Argonne, our valorous sons have well deserved the highest tribute that a nation, fortified, defended, preserved, could give to them. Whenever the demand has come, and wherever it may have called the sons of our proud land, it has always been answered. Though we have never been a militant or war loving people, there has been no time when Americans did not rise to the full measure of requirement which national honor and national safety imposed upon them. When national safety was the cause, the response was always insistent and decisive. When civilization summoned and our sons were called to other seas and soils, we saw the same promptness, the same zeal the same devotion.
"On this Memorial day of 1921, we stand, I trust, very close to peace achieved, to safety assured. May it be our common aim and purpose that, in the coming years, our nation's aim and policy shall be directed to make certain that there shall be least need for further sacrifices, greatest guarantees of stability, the permanence and the inspiring character of those institutions of liberty to which our nation has been dedicated."
President Sends Stirring Memorial Day Message to American Legion; Sees Golden Years Ahead.
(By The Associated Press.)
New York, May 26.-President Harding, in a Memorial day message to the American legion, made public tonight, expressed hope that the future would bring less need for national sacrifices. The message follows:
"Americans have never been much given to the establishment of holidays and fete days. Perhaps our national life has been so short, and entirely within so matter of fact and practical a period of the world's history, that we have been little moved by the sentiments that such occasions inspire.
"Yet, I think no nation has ever established a national day of consecration that represented a more lofty and ennobling sentiment than does our national memorial day. To its observance we have brought the full measure of sincere reverence and gratitude that a great people is ever to entertain for those who have made the great sacrifice in its behalf.
"Memorial day marks our recognition of those who, from our national beginnings, have deserved the most that the nation could give of gratitude and appreciation. It reminds us that in every generation, from Lexington to the Argonne, our valorous sons have well deserved the highest tribute that a nation, fortified, defended, preserved, could give to them. Whenever the demand has come, and wherever it may have called the sons of our proud land, it has always been answered. Though we have never been a militant or war loving people, there has been no time when Americans did not rise to the full measure of requirement which national honor and national safety imposed upon them. When national safety was the cause, the response was always insistent and decisive. When civilization summoned and our sons were called to other seas and soils, we saw the same promptness, the same zeal the same devotion.
"On this Memorial day of 1921, we stand, I trust, very close to peace achieved, to safety assured. May it be our common aim and purpose that, in the coming years, our nation's aim and policy shall be directed to make certain that there shall be least need for further sacrifices, greatest guarantees of stability, the permanence and the inspiring character of those institutions of liberty to which our nation has been dedicated."
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Historical Event
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Bravery Heroism
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Memorial Day
President Harding
American Legion
National Sacrifices
Hope For Peace
Valor And Devotion
What entities or persons were involved?
President Harding
American Legion
Where did it happen?
New York
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President Harding
American Legion
Location
New York
Event Date
May 26, 1921
Story Details
President Harding's Memorial Day message to the American Legion expresses sincere reverence and gratitude for Americans who made sacrifices from Lexington to the Argonne, highlights the nation's history of responding to calls of honor and safety, and voices hope for a future of peace, stability, and minimal need for further national sacrifices.