"In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen and not in mine is the great issue of civil war.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

One visitor,a former Navy man,once said: "The only good thing about my fighting in the war was that I was too young to be terrified."

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Lincoln said to the old man: "When I think of the sacrifices of life still to be offered, and the hearts and homes to be made lonely before this terrible war is over, my heart is like lead.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh,my gosh,there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'" And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him,and here he's a football coach at Cal , so if we go to an athletic event, there would be people painting their signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31