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OnlyHuckabee.com Memorial Day Edition We are dedicating this weekend to our fallen heroes who have defended our country and liberty by making the ultimate sacrifice. "Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends." John 13:15 Following is an excerpt
from Oliver Wendell Holmes 1895 Memorial Day speeech "The Soldiers
Faith":
"Behind every
scheme to make the world over, lies the question,
What kind of world do you want? The ideals of the past for men
have been drawn from war, as those for women have been drawn from
motherhood. For all our prophecies, I doubt if we are ready to
give up our inheritance. Who is there who would not like to be
thought a gentleman? Yet what has that name been built on but the
soldier's choice of honor rather than life?
To be a soldier or descended from soldiers, in time of peace to be ready to give one's life rather than suffer disgrace, that is what the word has meant; and if we try to claim it at less cost than a splendid carelessness for life, we are trying to steal the good will without the responsibilities of the place. We will not dispute about tastes. The man of the future may want something different. But who of us could endure a world, although cut up into five-acre lots, and having no man upon it who was not well fed and well housed, without the divine folly of honor, without the senseless passion for knowledge outreaching the flaming bounds of the possible, without ideals the essence of which is that they can never be achieved? I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use." Memorial Day Tribute videos:
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