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Thank You. (Memorial Day) - 5/27/2013 3:13:29 PM

MHAP

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I would like to say thank you to everyone who ever put on a uniform and picked up a weapon to serve this country, and to all of those that "Gave All" so that we may continue to live free.

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RE: Thank You. (Memorial Day) - 5/27/2013 9:50:07 PM

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I'll join you in that.

It may not be a war I believed in, but that is a separate
issue from what we owe to those who are willing to put
their lives on the line because they believe their country,
our country, needs them.

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RE: Thank You. (Memorial Day) - 5/27/2013 9:52:49 PM

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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 consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. 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 who fought here 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 for 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 the earth.

--Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

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