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This Memorial Da>. may we return to our nation’s infancy when the blood shed was that of an umbilical cord severed. Though there have been numerous wars and conflicts since that time, without those deaths of the American Revolution, our great nation would not have had a chance at life. Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry.. .men like tht.2 set the standard for life and death in the cause of our nation. In difficulty, (iod was there. James Beattie. (1735-1803) wrote... 'There is not a book on earth so unfriendly to hatred, persecution, tyranny, injustice...as the Gospel." God was their ally... "inflexible in faith, invincible in arms...” On this day, as we mourn for those who have died on the battlefield throughout our nation's history , may we remember that through the ages, faith has softened the sting of death. r “Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn; Kind nature the embryo blossom will sere. The spring shall yet visit the smoldering urn; The day shall yet dawn on the night of the grove.”

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