Healing war fighters is the next great task remaining before us

Healing war fighters is the next great task remaining before us
Wounded Times
Kathie Costos
November 19, 2013

Today the speech from President Lincoln honoring the fallen in the Gettysburg Address will be repeated, but there is a special section in it that we really need to focus on.

"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion."
(Gettysburg Address)

Historians can figure out how many, or close to it, died on the battlefield in every war this nation has had, but the truth is, none of them can even come close to how many we lost because of the battlefield.

They will never know how many committed suicide because we failed to bind their wounds inside of their bodies.

"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 a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."