excon
May 25, 2009, 09:29 AM
Hello:
To the fallen, so that we can live free. Oooo Rah!
excon
J_9
May 25, 2009, 10:01 AM
Yes, to the fallen... thank you all for your service... Even if you never fell.
artlady
May 25, 2009, 10:03 AM
Yes! God Bless them one and all!
Thank-you to the families as well who sacrifice so much that we can live free.
smearcase
May 25, 2009, 10:05 AM
That's a tough act to follow. The only thing I can add is:
GOD BLESS AMERICA AND THE FAMILIES OF THE FALLEN.
tomder55
May 25, 2009, 04:55 PM
I can't say it any better than Lincoln :
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 it can never forget what they did here.
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.