Norman Prince : $b A volunteer who died for the cause he lovedBabbitt, George Franklin
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Norman Prince : $b A volunteer who died for the cause he loved
Babbitt, George Franklin
Prince, Norman, 1887-1916; World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations; World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives
Speaking for the Harvard Class of 1909 of which Norman was a member, its
Secretary, Francis A. Harding, said: “On behalf of the Harvard Class of
1909, I wish to express the very deep regret which every Harvard man,
and especially every classmate of Norman’s, has felt after reading the
announcement of his death in France. To those of us who knew Norman
intimately, the news of his death comes as a distinct shock, and every
member of our class feels proud to have known and to have been affiliated
with one who had the courage to give in such a noble way everything he
possessed to the great cause in which he believed.”
From South Carolina Senator Tillman wrote: “Your son gave his young life
in defense of what all of us know is a sacred cause. He was a twentieth
century Lafayette, a modern knight errant whose statue will yet grace
the capital of France. Prince? Yes, a Prince indeed—‘sans peur et sans
reproche.’”
Many other thoughtful and tender messages came from others, friends and
strangers, at home and abroad, testifying their commingled sorrow and
admiration. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge telegraphed from Washington this
tribute:
“Nothing could have been more gallant than his life—nothing
finer than his death in a great cause, dear to his heart.”
An eloquent and fitting epitaph!
TO NORMAN PRINCE
From a Boston Boy, in France, American Ambulance Field Service, October
20, 1916.
Gone is the honored boy bird
He’ll fly no more for France,
His spirit though,—a silent word
That over all the Earth is heard,—
Commands her friends Advance!
His courage and devotion tried
Must all the world convince
He was, as all of us decide,
And France, for love of whom he died,
In name and deed—a Prince.
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS
U. S. A
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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