[soozla]

A fitting tribute to those that gave all and the enduring pride of those who honor their memory each year on this day and always.

[VOA]

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[Graybeard58]

A. Lincoln sure knew how to put a lot into a few words.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

This brings to mind the Sulliavan Brothers:

The five Sullivan Brothers were lost when the ship to which all five were assigned, USS Juneau (CL-52) was sunk on 13 November 1942. Many memorial efforts have honored the five brothers. Since their loss much confusion has resulted from the many myths surrounding both the Sullivan brothers and the Navy's policy regarding family members serving together at sea.

[Spaulding]

Can't resist asking whether those deaths were necessary. I'm currently about three quarters finished reading Thomas De Lorenzo's "The Real Lincoln" with my children. It appears that Lincoln was a always a big spender, big government wig, and would be most comfortable with the Democrats were he alive today. Those woman's sons would have lived if Lincoln at allowed the secession, as clearly intended by the founders, of those Southern states who were being taxed to death.

Lincoln alive today, at least as documented by De Lorenzo, would have jailed or shot leaders of the major networks, and jailed state assemblies in Calif. New York Mass. Ill. ... He was very good at "Feel your pain" speeches, but practically lived in the telegraph room, probably commanding the burning of Shenandoah Valley, killing women and children in Atlanta and a dozen other cities.

I don't have Union or Confederate roots, and am certainly labeled by my liberal friends as a conservative. But Lincoln seems not to have trusted free markets, was big on taxes and tariffs. What other than a dictator could you label a president who suspends habeas corpus, ignores the courts and imprisons judges, uses the military to control elections and suspends free speech after starting a war to prevent the loss of natural resources by disallowing secession? Oh, and he never disavowed his belief that blacks should be free, but on other continents. He supported, sometimes with government funds, efforts to relocate blacks to Haiti, Puerto Rico, Africa,

[Bobby Chang]

So true. I remember Fox playing it last year at the Coca-Cola 600 with drivers reading the letter. That is one of the all-time greatest scenes on television, and this letter should always be read during Memorial Day weekend.

[Valin]

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[Lonesome in Massachussets]

From: http://www.americancivilwar.info/pages/mrs_bixby_letter.asp


Note - The authorship of this letter is much debated and many scholars believe it was actually written John Hay, one of President Lincoln's secretaries.



President Lincoln wrote this letter expressing condolences to Mrs. Bixby, a widow who it was believed had lost five sons in the Civil War.



After Lincoln wrote this letter it was later learned that only two of Mrs. Bixby's five sons had actually died in battle. In fact, one of her sons had deserted the army, one was honorably discharged and it is unclear what happened to the other son.
From http://www.americancivilwar.info/pages/mrs_bixby_letter.asp


Mrs. Bixby was believed to be a Confederate sympathizer and destroyed the original letter.



A reprint of the letter appeared in an eastern newspaper.


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One naturally wonders, if Mrs. Bixby actually destroyed the original letter, where did the "eastern newspaper" get it? Lincoln was also a shrewd politician.

[cvq3842]

This one always chokes me up. I'm bookmarking it. a belated thanks for posting.