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Excerpt from The American Legion Monthly, Vol. 11: July 1931 On the personal side I am glad to speak here because Arlington contains the last earthly remains of many friends; here lie the bodies of my own father and mother, and one day my wife and myself shall find in this spot our last earthly resting place. With the Capitol of our country just across the river, with the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in sound of my voice, with the myriad hero graves stretching on every hand around me, with you surviving veterans of wars near and far, late and recent, before me, with this distinguished company attending upon what I say, my hope is that my words shall measure up in some degree to the needs of this high place and hour. Today in every portion of our land, in France and a multitude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.