Memorial Day Address (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Fessenden, Franklin G.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Memorial Day Address We are come together to-day to pay our tribute to those who preserved for us the integrity of our country. To them we owe whatever measure of prosperity we enjoy and the advantage we have in the most beneficent form of government the world has seen. It is no perfunctory ceremony. It is rather the sincere expression of our appreciation of what they did and of our profound gratitude for what they have left us. We are in the full enjoyment of privileges so highly prized by mankind that citizens of foreign nations have come to us in very large numbers to share with us what they could not have in the lands of their birth. They equally with us have prospered. It is then to them as well as to ourselves that we should point out why and how these inestimable privileges and opportunities were preserved. However it may be hereafter, nothing worth having in any nation has yet been obtained without the inevitable struggle which has come to all forms of government in all times. So let us mind the lesson and let us also make it plain to the young and to our adopted fellow citizens that they too may understand and appreciate its priceless value. The struggle was long and severe. The price paid in blood and treasure immense. Yet is the gain worth vastly more than the price. With profound appreciation of what they did we place these tokens of our love on the graves of those who are gone. We express our gratitude to those now living who participated in the war of 1861. We show our recognition of their enormous sufferings and sacrifices. And we cherish to-day also the memories of those who, unable to take part in battle, bore their griefs with patient fortitude. Resigned, uncomplaining, they have taken a warm place in the hearts of those who appreciate patriotic sacrifice. That individual instances were inexpressibly sad is shown by the well remembered letter from President Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby, an afflicted widow who had lost five sons in the war. Those who remember the war know that this was but a single instance among thousands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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