In his second inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln promised veterans:
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 lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.
Lincoln's words are engraved on plaques at the headquarters of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a three-block hike from the White House. President Bush and Congressional Republicans should take a hike because it's past time for them to keep Lincoln’s promise (and here).
