There are many good and thoughtful memorials, designed to help us remember those who have given their all in defense of this country. But on Memorial Day, there is a tendency to focus only on the external threats that the sacrifice of these individuals represent. Accordingly, I felt it appropriate to post something a bit centripetal:
Whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some transatlantic giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River, or make a track on Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we shall live forever, or die by suicide.
- Abe Lincoln, 1837
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