"I face the terrible question arising in their minds: 'Are you worthy of the blood spilled and the example given you?'
want to answer this question by saying, 'Yes, France is faithful to the spirit of the Frenchmen and the Americans who fell on the blood-soaked earth of our country.'
"The events we are now living through may be against the spirit of our dead. The world today may be contrary to the world they wanted to make. Their dreams may not correspond to the hard realities surrounding them, "Nevertheless, it is true that were they to come back to us, they would recognize in us the men they were during their lifetime and the men they would have desired to remain had they lived. the heel of a conqueror.
"The American soldiers who lie here helped to keep the torch of liberty alight in the world. That is enough testification. No death for freedom was ever in vain.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.