Mayor Kessler proudly welcomed Rear Admiral Kristen Fabry, the 338th U.S. Army Band, and the Bexley Police Honor Guard at this years’ Memorial Day Service.
In 1868, Ohio Congressman and future president James A. Garfield delivered the first Memorial Day Speech at Arlington National Cemetery. It was 1868, the Civil War having ended a scant 3 years prior. His words were profound, rich, and earnestly attempted to give adequate justice to the gravity of the valor and the sacrifice of those whose bravery and sacrifice we solemnly celebrate.
"I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion," said Garfield.
"If silence is ever golden, it must be here beside the graves of fifteen thousand men, whose lives were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem, the music of which can never be sung.”
Let us resolve today, and always, to be a community who honor those who have fallen, and who are permanently and meaningfully dedicated to preserving a country and a world that is free from tyranny and oppression
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