Rabbi Edward N. Calisch of Richmond, Va., representing the National Jewish Welfare Board of whose Army and Navy Committee he is a member, delivered the principal address today, Armistice Day, at the grave of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. Among other things Dr. Calisch said:
“Beneath this marble there rests the body of the Unknown Soldier. We know not what was his color, of his creed, or his condition in life. We know not whether there wept for him a solitary widow in an humble cabin, or a proud family in a palatial mansion. We know not whether he prayed to Jehovah or to Christ We know not whether he came from Puritan or from Cavalier stock, or was an humble stranger, who had been received within these gates of opportunity. But we do know that he is the token of that union of racial and national cultures, in whose fusion is the making of the future of America.”
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