THE WAR MEMORIAL.
A WOMAN’S POINT OF VIEW. (By a Woman.) Many and various are the ways of touching the hearts of people, and the collection of money for however noble a purpose means a thorny path for the stalwart heart. There is much sunshine, but the bitterness comes in excuses and shirking of obligations. Some people object because “the collection is not for the living.” Does not this excuse suggest the exploiting of our dead soldiers?
We only make because of them; our very existence is because of them and their sacrifice.
How dare we think of doing something for our own benefit and waxing fat on the glory of their life’s surrender?
Is it. not becoming that we meiporise our heroes in a stately and dignified monument of no material use to anyone, but sacred and living to us, as the embodiment of greatness, loyalty and heroism?
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 16212, 29 September 1924, Page 4
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