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“A Time for Honor and Hope”

Small-Town America’s September Eleventh Memorial


		From the Silence of Time, Time’s Silence borrow. In the heart of To-day is the word of To-morrow. The Builders of Joy are the Children of Sorrow.

		(William Sharp, “Triad”)

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		What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts, the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army. These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land. All of them may be turned against our liberties, without making us stronger or weaker for the struggle. Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises.

		(Abraham Lincoln, September 11, 1858)

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Created September 15, 2002; revised September 9, 2003.