If the moderator would be so kind to indulge me a few words.....
Just a thought today my Brothers.....please enjoy our sport today....weather you are shooting a match, tuning your rifle, or just having plain fun. There are men and women around this great country of ours who have givin the ultimate sacrifice so we may enjoy these days. Below is a quote from Abraham Lincoln to a Mrs. Bixby who lost 5 sons in the Civil War. I reprinted the last part as it represents all mothers and fathers who have givin so much so we can have the life we do. Raise a toast to the lost, and to all the Mrs. Bixby's. May there be many many less of them in the future....
"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to 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,
Abraham Lincoln
Just a thought today my Brothers.....please enjoy our sport today....weather you are shooting a match, tuning your rifle, or just having plain fun. There are men and women around this great country of ours who have givin the ultimate sacrifice so we may enjoy these days. Below is a quote from Abraham Lincoln to a Mrs. Bixby who lost 5 sons in the Civil War. I reprinted the last part as it represents all mothers and fathers who have givin so much so we can have the life we do. Raise a toast to the lost, and to all the Mrs. Bixby's. May there be many many less of them in the future....
"I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to 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,
Abraham Lincoln
