Stirring Words

Fire of Liberty
Here's what Lincoln wrote to a mother who lost two sons during the Civil War. I pretty much agree with Lincoln's sentiments and believe they're pertinent words with our fight in Iraq. Ole Abe has a way with words, see for yourself:

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

I guess some folks who walk around calling this war a horrific event will never be satisfied. I guess we need to return to a time when people understood what a soldier's death meant and how much it hurts the President to read the reports of the soldiers dying in Iraq. There is a silent majority out there who understand this sacrifice and knows the President's sentiments and anguish during the war.