DECORATION DAY: MAY 30 1920
Tucson, Arizona (JFK+50) On Sunday, May 30, 1920, Decoration Day* was celebrated in the United States. An editorial appeared on that date in the Arizona Daily Star which included the following quote from English writer John Ruskin**...
"Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as the grave."
The Star editorial added...
"Voices now are heard from the stilled lips of those who gave their all that this nation might be a united nation of free men."
The editorial stated that the Ruskin quote would be..."something to remember this Decoration Day when the living strew flowers of memory upon the graves of the dead."
*Decoration Day was established May 5 1868 by the Grand Army of the Republic as a time to decorate the graves of war dead with flowers.
**John Ruskin (1819-1900) was born in London & educated at King's College & Oxford. JR was the leading art critic of the Victorian era.
SOURCE
"Decoration Day 1920," Arizona Daily Star, May 3o, 1920, www.tucson.com/
John Ruskin
June 29 1863
Photo by William Downey
National Portrait Gallery
Tucson, Arizona (JFK+50) On Sunday, May 30, 1920, Decoration Day* was celebrated in the United States. An editorial appeared on that date in the Arizona Daily Star which included the following quote from English writer John Ruskin**...
"Men cannot benefit those that are with them as they can benefit those that come after them; and of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as the grave."
The Star editorial added...
"Voices now are heard from the stilled lips of those who gave their all that this nation might be a united nation of free men."
The editorial stated that the Ruskin quote would be..."something to remember this Decoration Day when the living strew flowers of memory upon the graves of the dead."
*Decoration Day was established May 5 1868 by the Grand Army of the Republic as a time to decorate the graves of war dead with flowers.
**John Ruskin (1819-1900) was born in London & educated at King's College & Oxford. JR was the leading art critic of the Victorian era.
SOURCE
"Decoration Day 1920," Arizona Daily Star, May 3o, 1920, www.tucson.com/
John Ruskin
June 29 1863
Photo by William Downey
National Portrait Gallery
