After the war the process of identifying the dead and a reburial effort took place for the Union soldiers headed by the federal government. In the South. women headed the effort to identify and lay to rest the Confederate soldiers. As a people, the United States wanted to care for and honor their dead. After the war ended the first Memorial Day holiday was set up to remember the fallen and has continued to be a tradition
Abraham Lincoln Lincoln was considered one of our most important president in American history. Abraham Lincoln spent his last ten years of his life by doing political and military actions that changed history forever. Lincoln spent 1856-1858 by challenging Stephen Douglas to exactly seven debates mostly about slavery. Lincoln also fought for the presidency in 1860 again with Stephen Douglas from the Eastern frontier. Lincoln also proposed military action on slavery by passing the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 that made not one slave free from the South.
The Post War Life The effect of the Vietnam War on the surviving soldiers The Vietnam War left a great scar in all the people that were directly and indirectly involved in it. Among the affected were the soldiers that not only died in the war, but also survived it. The war destroyed them physically and mentally to a point that it felt as if the war continued throughout the remainder of their lives. The feeling of trauma, hatred toward the War, and grief are well portrayed in Yusef Komunyakaa’s Roll Call, and W. D. Ehrhart’s Invasion of Grenada. The authors of these poems strived to provide a first-hand experience with the purpose of proving that even though one survives the war, the same war never leaves.
It had a drastic effect on the United States. Families were torn apart, peoples lives were changed because of injury, and 620,000 people died. Walt Whitman captured many of these things in the poems he wrote Leaves of Grass, on of the greatest books in American literature. A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim, shows the effects war had on people. An old man fights in the physically demanding war, a teenager's life being changed before it has even really started, both dead because of the war.
Sturken notes:”To the veterans, the wall is an atonement for their treatment since the war; to the families and friends of those who died, it is an official recognition of their sorrow and an opportunity to express a grief that was not previously sanctioned; to others, it is either a profound antiwar statement or an opportunity to rewrite the history of the war to make it fit more neatly into the master narrative of American imperialism.” (Sturken 80) The memorial is not designed to represent any particular image or item and instead reflects the stigma inflicted upon veterans returning home from the war. Veterans were expected to act as if they had not sacrificed for their country and to separate themselves from a war where they were often seen as complicit in an abuse of American power. The wall reflects this sentiment and evokes the veterans’ implicit feeling of abandonment while simultaneously providing a safe haven for memorialization and remembrance. It does not dictate the narrative of memory and instead promotes personal reflection because of its abstract form, leaving individuals to analyze and interpret their memories as they
His tomb is a reminder of what we have lost in war and what we have gained.” With these words, Prime Minister Keating reminded us that it was our solemn duty to never forget the sacrifice that this man and others have made. “He is all of them. And he is one of us.” This statement points out to us that this soldier is indeed special; not because he was great or famous but was a normal everyday person like
“The Almighty has his own purposes, woe unto the worth.” Lincoln stays away from choosing words that would be sensitive to the north and south. Lincoln uses hopeful and unifying diction to make the country whole and not two separate parts. Throughout his speech he uses “we” and “us” to show unity and. He tells the citizens “To care for, for him who shall have borne the battle for his widow and his orphan.” Lincoln tired to include both sides to show unity and appeal across to the Union and Confederacy. Lincoln ends his inaugural speech with, “To do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” He wants to unite the North and South to be one again.
One of the major turning points in America’s history after the civil war was the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. The president’s death changed the course of a country that was trying to rebuild itself after the war. During the Reconstruction in Lincoln’s time he ordered amnesty and that the south should be rebuilt, he also planned to end the hatred of the many black people that were now free. Lincoln planned to pardon any southerner who would swear allegiance to the Union and the United States Constitution. Within this plan he wanted to let the Confederate states back into the Legislature.
Why Veterans are Important to our Nation’s History and Future The Real Heroes You may know a few. They are living among us, typical citizens, silent heroes, living quietly, continuing to make the world a better place. They fought for our country with great courage and admiration, and are willing to do so again in the name of freedom and righteousness. These are our veterans of this great nation, the United States of America, who are one of its closely treasured people. The future of our country depends on the soldiers we have now who will become veterans.
The most important way to stop this erosion is to ensure that the next generation understands what the American Flag represents. I believe that the American Flag is more than just a three foot by five foot red white and blue piece of material. We need to remind our children as well as ourselves that the American Flag is more than this. It represents not only the freedoms and liberties that we sometimes take for granted, but also all of the true American Heroes that have served underneath it. The flag represents the soldiers that have fought at home and abroad to ensure that we retain the very freedoms that allow us to protest the wars that they are fighting.