On this solemn day of remembrance, may we be thankful to and be in prayer for all those who have served their country ... In honor and memory of those who have given "the last full measure of devotion" [Abraham Lincoln] that others might be free, I remind us all of the following words, penned by Katherine Lee Bates in 1904:
O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness, and every gain divine.
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