A party of women while recently passing through the
Hendersonville station at the time when a train from the South rolled in
bearing all that was left of a soldier who had given his life for his country,
was much surprised and not a little shocked to notice that when the box
enveloped in the folds of our country’s flag was borne through the station no
head was uncovered, nor was any sign of respect either to the flag or dead
soldier shown. The curious crowd gathered as usual at train time, accorded to
this hero and to its country’s flag only a cursory glance and went about its
business.
Should such things happen? Should such an apparent lack of
patriotic feeling and understanding be permitted? With no desire to criticize
but rather with the wish to call attention to the fact in the belief that in a
patriotic community where so much is being done in every way to add to the
comfort and welfare of the boys who have gone across, such apparent
indifference to one who was denied that privilege must come only from
thoughtlessness, and with the hope of preventing a recurrence in the future.
Surely one moment for respect could be spared!
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