Photo: Chip Somodevill
We remember.
But I've come to the conclusion remembering isn't enough, and in fact is mere sentimentality unless we take from memory the resolve Lincoln prescribed at Gettysburg:
from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation 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
