Commander James Hawk said a few words to the
members presented at the Cermony."I would like
to thank all presented to this Veterans Day
Service at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
We are here to honor the Soldiers and Sailors
and Marines defend our nation during the
Bloodiest times in our nation history, where
Brothers were fighting brothers. We stand in front
this great monument to pay our respect to those
brave men who sacrificed their life to save our
nations as one union.
I am remember a story about soldier who fought
for the 17th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, who was
captured in Battle and was sent to Andersonville
Prison to survive to tell his story to his children
and his grand children about his time in the Army
during the War of Rebellion. Another Soldiers
survived the war to tell their children. We as Sons
of Union Veterans need to inform our next
generation children about those brave Iowans
who went off to war and died. We need to keep
their memories alive for those brave men who
sacrificed their live to our freedom that we have
day because those men and women who signed up
to fight when our nation was calling for arms to
war.
In President Lincoln Speech at Gettyburg, He
asked the nation not to consecrate, we cannot
hallow ground. President Lincoln also it is rather
for us to be dedicated to the task remaining before
that from honored dead we take increased
devotion to that we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain that this nation,
by the people, for the people shall not perish from
the earth.
That is why on this day to remember our fallen
Civil War Ancestor. Maybe we stand for in
moment in quiet to remember those brave men
whom no longer on this earth but with us in
spirit of the day November 11, year our lord 2000
Commander of the Ladies Auxiliary Miss Helen
Dodd and Chaplain of the Ladies Auxiliary Peggy
Murphy placed flowers on the Soldiers and
Sailors Monument in Des Moines, Iowa.
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