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Draft of a speech; alternative text is interlined without carets for placement; my best interpretations. RMR

I am sometimes afraid/wonder whether we will spoil those dear boys/brave soldier boys who have perilled their lives for us with the honors showered/our weal, by showering such honors upon them when they return to their homes, but I fear those left lingering on beds of suffering at the hospitals I have far more fear /am more afraid lest they should be wounded by a feeling of neglect and a unclear that half a line lost in fold -- can this be rescanned? needless those who have so blessed through their pain will entirely forget them. O do not think this. On this glad 4th when our hearts thrill with such emotions of gratitude even as we extend to these returned veterans our grateful