Remembering all those who have fallen in defense of our country...
"Not for themselves, but for their country"
“The usefulness of the soldiers who fought or died upon this
battlefield did not fade away in the shadows which closed that memorable 17th
day of September 1862. The example of zealous devotion and noble sacrifice
which that hour engendered became a living and indestructible element toward
higher conceptions of life and of duty.”
“In the private soldier I seem to see typified the union of
purpose, the union of valor, and the union of probity, which gave to this war
the benediction of God, and, to our own cause, a glorious victory. Among all
nations and throughout all time the soldier, who endures the throes of warfare
for the sake of his home and his conceptions of liberty and justice, should
merit universal esteem.”
-Captain John C. Stevenson, Sept. 17, 1904, Dedication for the 100th Pennsylvania Infantry monument at Antietam
“It is eminently fitting that we should leave for other
generations some tribute of our admiration to the men whose valor did so much
for the preservation of our institutions, and who neither hesitated nor halted
to give their all that a nation dedicated to liberty and freedom should not
perish from off the earth.”
-General Robert P. Kennedy, veteran of the 23rd
Ohio Infantry, October 13, 1903, at a dedication ceremony for Ohio
monuments at Antietam
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