Decoration Day

     

  
  One wouldn't wish to make light
  of a seasonal holiday set aside
  for the last Monday in May, to
  express a debt to the fallen in
  the nation's military services.
  It is of course, beyond payment.

  The occasion began life under a
  title better fitted to the cost,
  Decoration Day. Stripped of all
  the cant of the occasion of any
  combat death, is the nation's
  deprivation of a young life bet-
  ter fitted for the illumination
  of our lives, than the enactment
  of politics' most sordid habit.