Mrs Bixby Letter/Memorial Day

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I believe this letter quintessentially shares our belief to honor those who sacrificed so much and to those Gold Star Families our appreciation...


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 words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to 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.
 
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MEMORIAL DAY.......
On this Day of Remembrance ....Continued Rest In Peace to those who have made the Supreme Sacrifice in Service to America.....may All Never Be Forgotten.....may their Family Members continue to find ongoing comfort in their absence.....

.....LIVE A LIFE WORTH THEIR SACRIFICE.
 
nfdcanman said:
I believe this letter quintessentially shares our belief to honor those who sacrificed so much and to those Gold Star Families our appreciation...


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 words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to 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.
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This was quoted in "Saving Private Ryan".
 
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