Thanks for bumping by, Ms Feather! Also thanks for bringing to our attention the wonderful Memorial Day article which link I am posting here as a
PRAYER WARRIOR FIELD TRIP!!
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/916388/posts A Greater Love Hath No Man Than This...
SFGATE.com (The SF Chronicle) ^ | 05/23/03 | Adam Sparks
Posted on 05/22/2003 11:55 PM CDT by sfwarrior
"We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot 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." -- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, Nov. 19, 1863
Five years after Lincoln pronounced those immortal words for the dead on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pa., Gen. John A. Logan proclaimed on May 5, 1868, the precursor of the Memorial Day holiday. Logan established the observance, first known as Decoration Day, as a time to honor the nation's Civil War dead by decorating their graves. Both the North and the South, in order to commemorate the Civil War's fallen heroes, took up Logan's call. It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868....*snip*
