A day late, but still relevant

[AirForceRocks]

I just received this from a colleague (he wrote the first paragraph), and thought it fitting.

On October 3, 1889, Joshua Chamberlain, commander of the 20th Maine Infantry Regiment at the Battle of Gettysburg, met his surviving brothers-in-arms on the battlefield. The purpose was to dedicate a monument to the 20th Maine men who were killed in that battle. The words he spoke that day would apply today in honoring the heroic, firemen, police officers, and volunteer rescuers who fell in the first two battles of this war at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as well as the heroic passengers of United Flight 93 who perished in the third battle at that hallowed crash site in the Pennsylvania countryside. These were Chamberlain's words on that solemn dedication ceremony 134 years ago:

"In great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision place of souls. And reverent men and women from afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! The shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls."

 

[JAP]

Thanks Brenda. Never late, always timely with subjects such as these. Please see my Heaven post.

Jen

 

[nativetxn]

Beautiful and timely, I don't see how these words could be considered late. I try to remember this great loss everyday. Thank you for posting this.

Katholyn

 

[banana hammock]

Very interseting


In 1893 Congress gave him the Medal of Honor for gallantry at Gettysburg.