Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0420Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a number of men wearing matching clothing sitting at long tables inside a cafeteria waiting to be served food. Above the image "88" is printed, below the image "8016 Dining Room, Soldiers' Home, Marion, Ind." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
8016---Dining Room, Soldiers' Home, Marion, Ind.
The National Soldiers' Home at Marion, Ind., cost more than $2,000,000. Hundreds of disabled veterans are cared fore here by the bounty of the nation for which they risked all and lost much. Some are veterans of the war for the Union. Others lost health and prospects in Cuba or the Philippines. Some trace their dependence to an enemy's shot or shell, some to exposure, some to disease, some to deadly sunstroke. Now and then one will say frankly that no enemy in Confederate gray, and no Spanish foeman, and no deadly bacillus of typhoid or small-pox ever did him so much hrm as his enslavement to civil habit; he is his own worst enemy. Her citizens ready to die in her cuase are the nation's wealth and power, and the pledge of continued and increasing greatness. Ten million heroes such as these would answer Columbia's call if the shrill voice of well-founded alarm called them to arms. Peace to these who have served and suffered, peace and honor and comfort well deserved.
There are ten of these old soldiers's homes throughout the United States, and twnety-seven states maintain separate homes for old soldiers. Moreover many other comrades (or their widows or children) of the veterans here seen, recieve pensions from the National Government. In 1912 there were 860,294 pensioners on the government rolls, and the money paid this number amounted to $152,986,433.72.
Copyright, 1913 by The Keystone View CompanyCollection
Photograph Collection