90Xjay
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I think we have covered the topic before here during Vetrans Day and everyone got a chance to mention if they are currently serving or have served. But I wanted to start a thread so that jeepers could post names and or pics of any friend of loved one who has given the supreme sacrifice for our freedom.
I also wanted to say thank you and God Bless each and every American family who has suffered great loss.
I am fortunate in that I do not have a close friend or relative who has died in combat so I offer this instead:
This is a letter supposedly written by Abraham Lincoln to a grieving mother who lost sons in the Civil War.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,--
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
Please get up early and put your flags out and take a moment to reflect before you start the days activities.....
I also wanted to say thank you and God Bless each and every American family who has suffered great loss.
I am fortunate in that I do not have a close friend or relative who has died in combat so I offer this instead:
This is a letter supposedly written by Abraham Lincoln to a grieving mother who lost sons in the Civil War.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.
Dear Madam,--
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
Please get up early and put your flags out and take a moment to reflect before you start the days activities.....
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