In Consideration of Memorial Day
(We meet) here dedicated to the great task remaining before usthat from these honored dead we take increased devotion to the cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotionthat we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vainthat 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.
[I]–A. LincolnDedicating a federal cemetery at Gettysburg honoring the Civil War dead, Nov. 14, 1863[/I] Download Bulletin PDF