Summary

The Army and Navy Hymnal — Service of Commemoration (1920)

Remembered be our Fathers, who founded the nation in integrity and piety,
And died in faith, not having received the promises, but seeing them afar off.
All:
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Choral Response
Where loyal hearts and true Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through, In God's most holy sight. A-men
Choral Response
Where loyal hearts and true
Stand ever in the light,
All rapture through and through,
In God's most holy sight. Amen.
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The Army and Navy Hymnal — Service of Commemoration (1920)

O May thy soldiers, faithful, true, and bold,
Fight as the saints who nobly fought of old,
And win with them the victor's crown of gold.
Alleluia. Amen.
III. THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES
All:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Leader:
That other generations might possess —
From shame and menace free in years to come —
A richer heritage of happiness,
He marched to that heroic martyrdom. Alan Seeger
Assembly:
One by one Death challenged them. One by one they smiled in his grim visage, and refused to be dismayed.
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The Army and Navy Hymnal — Service of Commemoration (1920)

To die for truth is not to die for one's country, but to die for the world. Jean Paul Richter
That no one who has died for a great cause is ever wasted, that the only right expression of grief is a fresh self-dedication to the cause the loved one loved, is an attitude toward loss that may well pass from the army of warriors to that greater army of civilians. Winifred Kirkiand
Hymn No. 183 For All the Saints
Thou wast their rock, their fortress, and their might;
Thou, Lord, their captain in the well-fought fight;
Thou, in the darkness drear, their one true light.
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