Tribute To Brave Boys.
Tribute To Brave Boys.

TRIBUTE TO BRAVE BOYS.
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President McKinley's Address to First District Regiment
at Convention Hall.
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"Mr. Commissioner and Soldiers of the First District of Columbia:
    "It has given me very great pleasure to join with your fellow-citizens in participating in the exercises which give honor to this regiment. It was my good fortune to look into your faces before you started for the front; it was my good fortune to look into your faces upon your return. When you started I was filled with hope; when you returned I had a feeling of full realization that you had quite performed the high expectations I had for you. All mankind admires valor. This regiment did its whole duty, and that's all you can say of any soldier. You went where you were ordered--loyally, unmurmuringly. You did every duty that was assigned you, and you came back from the field and exposure with new honors added to the flag you carried from the city of Washington. I am glad it is possible to muster you out of the service, and yet I regret very much to see this splendid body of men leave the service of the United States. But I fully console myself in standing here at the very threshhold of your muster out with the feeling that if your country needed you day after to-morrow every man would be ready to respond."


Source:

Unknown, "Tribute To Brave Boys," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Thursday, 17 November, 1898, p. 1.

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