Contributed by Glenn Pease on Mar 12, 2021
Psalm 116 is about being a survivor, and being alive when, except
for the grace of God, the author would be dead. He was delivered
from death, and this is his song of thanksgiving.
Memorial Day began as a day to honor and remember those who
died in the Civil War. The very first soldier to die in that war was
Colonel Ellsworth, a personal friend of President Lincoln. Lincoln
gave his regiment the honor of being the first to cross the
Potomac into Virginia and pull down the
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