inspired by BILL KEATING, JR.
“It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray haired. […]
“I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion.
More“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.” – George S. Patton
MoreIn the autumn of 1864, Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew wrote to President Lincoln, asking him to express condolences to Mrs. Lydia Bixby, a widow believed to have lost five sons during the Civil War. Lincoln’s letter to her was printed by the Boston Evening Transcript.
More“It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country, in defense of us, in wars far away.
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