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They are not only eloquent tributes to the dead, but powerful appeals to the living.
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Sumner reflects on the dual nature of tributes to the deceased, serving both as memorials and calls to action for the living.
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Men are erring and mortal; principles are steadfast and immortal.
But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
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