Excerpt from Lafayette Day, September 6, 1919: Call Issued by the Lafayette Day National Committee and Report of the National Observance in the United States of the Double Anniversary, September 6, 1918 of the Birth of Lafayette (1757) And the Battle of the Marne (1914)
Our report for last year includes these proclamations and, showing as it does that the patriotic observance of the day has become truly national, we trust it may induce the governors of the same states to take similar action this year and that their example may be followed by their colleagues in the other states.
Again issuing our call on July 14th, when France commemorates her age-long struggles for liberty which eventually brought the whole civilized world to her support and its defense, we venture anew to remind our people that in honoring Lafayette upon his anniversary, made doubly memorable for all mankind by the Battle of the Marne, we shall be giving expression to the feeling of fraternal regard for our sister republic, our ally of old and of today, which exists among all elements of our people, and shall be celebrating with her the day which turned the tide of battle for freedom and the right, giving us time to organize our forces on land and sea and to provide the factor which proved decisive.
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