'The Cherished Memory Of The Loved And Lost': Bush Reads Out Abraham Lincoln Letter To Mother Whose Five Sons Died In Civil War -- Daily Mail
Former U.S. President George W Bush read a letter today written by Abraham Lincoln as he addressed the families of thousands of victims killed on 9/11 this morning.
Commemorating the sacrifices of those lost in the horrific terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Bush cited Lincoln's letter to Mrs Lydia Bixby, penned in 1864.
The text, regarded highly among Lincoln's finest works of writing, addresses a bereaved mother of five sons who were thought to have died while fighting for the Union in the Civil War.
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My Comment: I first heard the letter in the movie "Saving Private Ryan". Gives me goose pimples every-time that I hear it.
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