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our Heavenly Father<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To ease another\u2019s heartache is to forget one\u2019s own<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2019s wounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abraham Lincoln<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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