WHAT ARMYS DO!

In 1871 Frederick Douglas was speaking of the Army.  He reminded the nation with these words what the recent struggle meant.  "We must never forget that the loyal soldiers who rest beneath this sod flung themselves between the nation and the nation destroyers.  If today we have a country not boiling in an agony of blood (like France)--if now we have a united country, no longer cursed by the hell-black system of human bondage--if the American name is no longer a by-word and a hissing to a mocking earth--if the Star-Spangled Banner floats only over free American citizens in every quarter of the land, and our country has before it a long and glorious career of justice, liberty, and civilization--we are indebted to the unselfish devotion of the noble army who rest in these honored graves all around us."....Medicineman!