On Memorial Day

As we enjoy our families and freedom on Memorial Day, let us take a moment to remember those who gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we could delight in days like these…

I found this excerpt from a letter President Lincoln sent to a Mrs. Bixby during the Civil War to be especially poignant and fitting:

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

Wishing a Happy Memorial Day to you and yours ~

xo,

Pamela

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