This portion of Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address seems appropriate for this Memorial Day! Let us always remember those who gave their lives to preserve our freedoms. Let's also remember that we have a responsibility to maintain freedom through our personal committment to God, our country and those who went before us.
"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion-that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
God Bless America! My personal thanks to all who died to make it so.
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