Wallace Reid - His Life Story #231943

Surely you would like to know him in his baby — hood, his boy — hood and his young manhood — for he travelled no further — when the call to attention came. You know now that he responded with signal courage, that he never wavered nor looked back, but pushed bravely on, into the Valley of the Shadow, nor did he pause, but passed on through the Grim Portal of Mystery and stood before the Infinite General over all of Eternity's Battles. Here. Well done, thou good and faithful. I, his mother, am proud that he did not wait for an hour of adversity, but took up this self imposed battle, at the very zenith of his fame, his prosperity and his allotted span. For this greatest victory of all, he laid down his life. He simply refused defeat. Thereby, his marvelous strength of character is irrefutably proven. To me, his mother, he is both martyr and hero. I weep for his martyrdom and glory in his high heroism!!