Observing Memorial Day

From The Washington Times:

Today we observe a solemn celebration of freedom. Memorial Day is for remembering, rededicating and commemorating those soldiers who have fallen and a celebration of those who serve.

To mark this Memorial Day, we reprint Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Today, as in 1863, the nation is at war. It is a struggle not with ourselves, but with those who seek to deny us our freedom. In this battle, not just soldiers face the ultimate sacrifice. Americans of all ages, creeds and parties are in peril. The entire world and all who inhabit it are under threat from Islamist fanatics and other violent radicals. It seems right to recall that America's struggle is the world's struggle -- the test that transcends the age, "whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."

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