Happy Memorial Day, USA, 5-27-24! Gettysburg Address

President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
November 19, 1863
The Civil War lasted from 1861-1865

On November 19, 1863 five years before the first "Decoration Day" [today's Memorial Day] the first Republican President Lincoln [Term: March 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865 [ delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Pennsylvania his iconic:

GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

"We are met on a great battle-field of that war. 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.
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"But, in a larger sense, we cannot 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. -- ​Source

Source: www.bbc.com/news/magazine-17604991
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In Memorandum
5-27-24, Jeff Childers said -- Ours is not a war fought with cannons and musket balls. Our generation’s war is a mental, emotional and cultural war. It's a war waged in secret and in lies, a war with needles. A mendacious war waged against truth, thoughts and feelings. We must fight for those not yet born and never stop fighting, until we have achieved a new birth of freedom in America. -- More here