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I found the following in an article written by Mrs. Sam Hauselmire in the Evansville Courier and Press (Evansville, Indiana), May 29, 1915. Writing about the local Memorial Day celebration, she made the point that those left behind in the wake of a soldier's death should be remembered as well. In her column, entitled "From the Point of View of the Wife of a Rural Router," she wrote:
"While we are about decorating our soldier's graves, lets also drop a flower upon the graves of those whom we know to have fought life's battles valiantly. The wives, mothers and sweethearts, left at home, were often as deserving of homage, as the soldiers themselves. The sorrow, uncertainty and longing by home folks for loved ones, in battle, was never half told. On last Memorial Day while listening to a young lady recite an incident of Shiloh's battle, I observed an elderly lady weeping. On the way home, she said: 'I could not keep from crying: my sweetheart was killed at Shiloh.' The years may wear away everything, but the power to suffer and to love."
"While we are about decorating our soldier's graves, lets also drop a flower upon the graves of those whom we know to have fought life's battles valiantly. The wives, mothers and sweethearts, left at home, were often as deserving of homage, as the soldiers themselves. The sorrow, uncertainty and longing by home folks for loved ones, in battle, was never half told. On last Memorial Day while listening to a young lady recite an incident of Shiloh's battle, I observed an elderly lady weeping. On the way home, she said: 'I could not keep from crying: my sweetheart was killed at Shiloh.' The years may wear away everything, but the power to suffer and to love."
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