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merry
meet - namaste -
cead mille failte
- peace
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great deeds something abides. On great fields something stays. Forms
change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate
ground for the vision-place of souls. And reverent men and women from
afar, and generations that know us not and that we know not of,
heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and
done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream;
and lo! the shadows of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom,
and the power of the vision pass into their souls.
-Major General Joshua Chamberlain, Commander, 20th Maine Regiment, at Gettysburg, Oct. 3, 1889. |