Off Topic — HabitableZone

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Forgive and forget

Fortunately, it's not up to you.

Ask the people whose comrades they were and the people whose families they were whether the land where those soldiers drew their last breaths is a fitting place for them to rest. Theirs are the only opinions that matter, and only about the particular members of their family or company.

People are defiled by their own principles or lack thereof, not by the surroundings in which they're buried.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.


Lincoln, A. The Gettysburg Address

Petty grudges against political leaders don't dignify anything.

Regards--
Mary Anne

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