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Now I hear his whistle; now I hear his song; now I hear the music
of his horse's hoofs. He has said his last good-bye to the old home.
That was fifty-five years ago. All this comes to me through the
magician called Memory. On Memorial Day I shall place flowers
on his grave. Just a few of the “boys in blue” linger to recall the
Civil War scenes. Only a few more years, at the longest, are theirs
to live. I am sure that the boys and girls of this, the best nation
on earth, have sufficient patriotic love to crave the privilege of
decorating with a flower the person of every living member of the
Grand Army of the Republic and every living Spanish War Veteran.
Remember the dead, although they cannot acknowledge your
flowers. In all the years to come the graves of our dead patriots
can be decorated; but only for a few short years can we gladden the
eye and shake the hand of the veteran. When we place flowers on
every grave, when we speak graciously of the dead, we give most
joy, most sympathy to those who remain to love, in memory, the
dead.
On Memorial Day, we are sure that if the immortal Lincoln and
the armies of the North and the armies of the South could with
us assemble on One great camp ground, they would join in One great
chorus for universal peace and good will.
Therefore, I, Woodbridge N. Ferris, Governor of the State of
Michigan, do hereby issue this my Proclamation, and heartily
urge the observance of Sunday, May 30, 1915, as Memorial Day.
As a part of the public exercises of Memorial Day, I suggest
that bells be tolled from 12:00 o'clock noon until 12:05; that flags
be placed at half mast, and that comrades stand with uncovered
heads during this period.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State,
this nineteenth day of May, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifteen, and
of the Commonwealth the seventy-ninth.
By the Governor: Governor.
Secretary of State.