"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow, and his orphan -- to do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations."
From Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
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Lincolns speech
The Gettysburg speech did pave the way
For all the benefits we enjoy from the VA
Like hospitalization, and primary care
Our GI Bill, didn't fall from the air
Like travel pay to get to my appointments
Full dental, mental health and antidepressants
If your damaged from service and your life is affected
In theory your automatically service connected
But a bureaucrat will fight you each step of the way
The process is tedious with years of delay
And once you granted the attention you needed
You wake up to the fact of how much we've been cheated
Who would have guessed all these perks of today
Came from a president now rumored to have been gay
Jim Hale
June 24 2011
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