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very real syid meaningful. Those old soldiers used to talk gratefully of Lincoln’s insistence that those who had borne the heat of the battle and the burden of the struggle, the widow and the orphan, were to be given not charity, but their rightful due as the dependents of those brave men who had fought to preserve liberty and to keep the Union intact. It was regarded as a sacred duty of the nation, and the nation kept faith with its veterans.
In those days, as now,were many who had been disabled by the struggle. Their ability to compete in life had been reduced by wounds suffered in battle. Even as a boy I remember hearing how it seemed they were thought of only on such days as Memorial Day, when orators, fervent in their patriotism, remembered, if only for a day, the long continuing sacrifice made not by those who had died in battle, but by the disabled who were to live for many years following the great struggle.
The heroes of World War I and World War II and the Korean War are, of course, men w'ho with no concern for themselves, gave their lives that freedom might live. We can never do them adequate honor. And, we must never forget them. They died in their young life, forsaking the opportunities of the years that the rest of us might live and develop our highest hopes and dreams.
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