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Rappahannock News photo/Lou Hatter THE TRADITION and spirit of that first Memorial Day was remembered and continued in a service conducted by the Reverend Jenks Hobson at the Episcopal Cemetery in Woodville on Monday.
“/ am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion. If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen thousand men whose lives were more significant than speech and whose death was a poem the music of which can never be sung. With words we make promises, plight faith, praise virtue. Promises may not be kept; plighted faith may be broken; and vaunted virtue may be only the cunning mask of vice. We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtue of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism."
Maj. Gen. James A. Garfield
Arlington National Cemetery
May 30, 1868
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