On this Memorial Day let us not forget that our young men and
women are dying in a foreign land.
It is certainly not the first time
that our sons and daughters, our husbands and wives have answered the call. I am
afraid though that this will not be the last time.
There are readers
of Bama Fan, I am certain, who have experienced the tragedy of
combat.
When those GI's gathered before the Chaplin on the eve of battle
to receive his blessing ,they felt those "butterflies" in the pits of their
stomachs. No one knew if they would see another sunset.
I feel it is
fitting to remember our young men and women by quoting from Abraham Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address.
".....The world will little note, nor long remember
what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the
living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have thus
far so nobly advanced."
" It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the
great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased
devotion to that cause which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that Government of the
people,by the people,for the people, shall not perish from this earth."
On this Memorial Day I shall be thinking of my buddies. I hope you all
do too.
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