MEMORIAL DAY
Remembering
our sons and daughters
who paid for liberty with their lives
THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
By Marie A. Schnieder
He was a brother, a father, a husband, and most of all a soldier.
He had humility of heart, pride of country and the courage of bolder.
In unmarked grave, known only to God, he lies, yet a son of freedom known to all.
He fell to eternity on the battle ground as he rose to heed his country's call.
They were our children, our beloved ones, who gave their lives so galantly.
Fighting for freedom on distant shore, keeping our country proud and free.
A memorial tribute to every soldier, let all Americans observe this day
Embracing our wariors upon this land and remebering those still far away.
On November 19, 1863, a cemetary was dedicated for the dead of the Battle of Gettysburg at which the key speaker was the famous orator Edward Everett. Among the notiaries who attended this solemn event was the then president of these United States, Abraham Lincoln.He spoke of the distress of a nation but most importantly of the debt owed to those who fell to the price of war
The Gettysburg Address2
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth,
upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty,
and dedicated to the proposition that
"all men are created equal."
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived,and so dedicated, can
long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that
war. We come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting
place for those who died here, that the nation might live.
This we may, in all propriety do. 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
hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here;
while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the
great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead
we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here,
gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that
the nation, 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.
Writer's Note:
I salute our men and women and
pray that I will never take my freedom for granted
Dear Lord hold, them in Your loving hand
give them the peace they died to give us.
Marie A. Schneider
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