To all the mothers out there, may today be filled with love and appreciation for all you do. Motherhood is something that even those of us with opposite points of view can come together and gush and commiserate about.
And, from the Jawa’s:
To all the mothers who have lost a child defending freedom and the rule of law, whether Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere, hopefully the following is appropriate.
Executive Mansion
Washington
Nov. 21, 1864
To Mrs. Bixby
Boston, Mass.Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save.
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
P.S. BabyInfidel is still cookin’…he’s going to be a stubborn one!
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