Saturday, March 4th 1865
The newly reelected President Lincoln stood there in front of a melancholy crowd, this time assuming a role that felt more like a mediator than a president. "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's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” After delivering this speech, his presidential responsibilities fell to his third-ranking title, following “Father.”
January 20, 1961
A new face stood before hopeful Americans, this time in a different century, subjects to the same peril and evil that has threatened the world since the beginning of time. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.” The charismatic John F. Kennedy stood in front of a nation living in fear of an abominable evil. Kennedy offered nothing more than the bright symbol of hope and liberty.
Father’s of time, yet neither making it through six decades. Physically dead, yet there souls unconquered by death. Golden in their day, but nothing gold can stay.
