Yesterday we honored the birth of the U.S. Marine Corps. Today we honor all the veterans who have served America.
Freedom is not free. There is a price that Americans have paid throughout the centuries on behalf of this country founded on the belief in the value of evey person with equal opportunity to pursue his dreams.
It is the Armed Forces of the United States who are on the front lines protecting our freedoms. They deserve our thanks and our honor.
One president in a personal note to a Massachusetts mother expressed it as well as it can be said.
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.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
God bless, protect and preserve the United States of America.
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