Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad . re your burdens on their shoulders and yoursufferings in their hearts. Will you quit the battlefieldof life and leave no enduring expression of your appre-ciation? Give, therefore, as you are able. Give even ofyour poverty. The last roll-call is near, Forgetfulnessis injustice. Remembrance is a sacred duty, On the walls of the memorial will be placed a tabletbearing this inscription: A Memorial built by the Gov-ernment of the United States and Patriotic Citizens tothe Women of the North and the Women of the Southheld in Loving Memory by a now Unite
Under the Red Cross flag at home and abroad . re your burdens on their shoulders and yoursufferings in their hearts. Will you quit the battlefieldof life and leave no enduring expression of your appre-ciation? Give, therefore, as you are able. Give even ofyour poverty. The last roll-call is near, Forgetfulnessis injustice. Remembrance is a sacred duty, On the walls of the memorial will be placed a tabletbearing this inscription: A Memorial built by the Gov-ernment of the United States and Patriotic Citizens tothe Women of the North and the Women of the Southheld in Loving Memory by a now United Country, Thattheir labors to mitigate the sufferings of the sick andwounded in war may be forever perpetuated this Me-morial is dedicated to the service of the American RedCross. The beautiful structure will take its place among aremarkable group of buildings representing art, patri-otism and peace, while the memorial itself commemoratesthe service and lives of heroic women of the past andstands as a sjanbol of the brotherhood of man. In a. A MEMORIAL S21 not distant future other buildings will cluster about thisexquisite memorial, as the fields of our Red Cross activ-ities grow and develop. With the eyes of faith I see, onone side, a grand priory of our Knights of St. Johnof Jerusalem who, like those of the order in Eng-land and other lands, will take charge, under theRed Cross, of all the vast domain of first aid duties intime of peace and of the male personnel in time of the other side I see the graceful priory of our nursingorder, an order of St. Filomena, supported and upheldby the patriotism and love of American women. Are these but visions, or are they born of such faithin the Red Cro^ and the people of the United Statesof America that they must become realities? Amidst destruction, desolation and despair; amidstsuffering, carnage and death, floats the banner of hu-manity. Against this standard no arm is raised and nogun is fired. United in the service of mercy,
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