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Many times he spoke of his pleasant meeting with you all, and one day, soon after our return, he said to me, ' Oh, I am so glad I attended the reunion, for it is my last on earth. I will soon be called to a reunion where no good-byes are said. ' "
Major John W. Mason, surgeon of the Sixth Michigan Heavy Artillery, died December 22, 1884. Comrades, while we shall not meet together long
and shall, as the years go by, miss first one, then another from our midst, let us continue these reunions; let us year by year meet and see how the battle of life goes with each other.
Let us live good citizens, and when the last drum beats our tattoo let us be ready and in good mustering order to join the ranks of our Grand Army who are tenting on the other shore.
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