Date: Monday 5/25/2015
Time: 9:00 AM
15506 W. Sky Way Dr., Casa Grande, AZ 85193
Mayor Bob Jackson and CG Interim Director of Police Services
(a Navy veteran who served in Vietnam) are among the speakers.
Arizona Antique Aircraft Assn. will perform a fly-over at 9 am
to start the ceremony.
In Honor of Memorial Day
– The Gettysburg Address, President Abraham Lincoln, Thursday, November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a
great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived
and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of
that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting
place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.
It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a
larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not
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.
