Memorial Day A Time of Remembrance and Renewal
I don’t know how most of you spent your Memorial Day. Hopefully with your families enjoying what has become the traditional start of summer. And hopefully also pausing for a few moments to remember those who have served our country as members of the military.
Each Memorial Day, I like to read and reflect upon Lincoln’s great Gettysburg Address – less than 300 words written by probably one of the most erudite attorneys of any age. If you have not visited it in awhile, I invite you to do so as I reprint his words here that continue to echo down through the years:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. 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 here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Only 272 words that say, well, everything there is to say about what we Americans owe our service members. Our duty is to remember and honor their sacrifice by protecting and enjoying all our freedoms every day.
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