Lent: Sacrifice

There's a municipally owned cemetery a few blocks from where I live that includes this memorial. Everyone whose name is engraved in this block represented the city during the Civil War.

It doesn't appear any of them died, but all of them made sacrifices: years of their lives, sleepless nights, memories of warfare that would haunt them forever, possibly even lost limbs. They did this in a war to keep the South from seceding over slavery, that eventually became a war to end legal slavery in the United States,

Those are both good causes, but I love the second more. As good as it is to have a unified nation, it's better to have one that is unified and committed to the welfare and freedom of all its people.


Copyright © 2019 by David Learn. Used with permission.


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