A simple wooden cross marks the grave of Jonathan, but the little mound that covers his mortal remains blooms with the flowers of France, brought to this American who died to save France, even as Frenchmen died to save America.
And I who had gone into the war with the buoyant spirit of youth, turned from that grave with a man’s stern determination, that to the uttermost of my powers, his death and that of thousands of other American boys should not have been in vain; that I, side by side with all true men, would offer my life towards that world-wide freedom for which they had given the last full measure of devotion—the supreme sacrifice.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned.
Punctuation has been made consistent.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.