Today we honor generations of Americans who gave their lives for our country. Recalling history, words of one of those Americans spoken some 159 years ago seem especially fitting:
"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan--to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."
President Abraham Lincoln deilivered these words in his second inaugural address, March 4, 1865.
A little more than a month later, while in serve to our country, Preident Lincoln died by an assanin's bullet, April 15 1865."Recall the past, live in the present, give to the future"
