Lincoln's Gettysburg Address calls for increased devotion to the Union cause for which soldiers died, and ensures that their deaths were not in vain by resolving that the nation shall have a new birth of freedom and that government by and for the people shall not perish. The second document lists the names, dates of death, and years of death of 10 local casualties of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2003-2007 as part of a memorial on the anniversary of 9/11.

1. That from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause
for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we highly resolve
that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall
have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people,
for the people shall not perish from the earth.
— Abraham Lincoln
9/11
We Will Not
Forget
The Times and Democrat
September 11, 2009
LocaL war casuaLties
George Buggs Orenthial Smith Vorn Mack Anthony Thompson Darius Jennings Rodricka Youmans Katrina Johnson Bell Jason Moski Clifford Gadsden Jason DeFrenn
March 23, 2003 June 22, 2003 August 23, 2003 September 18, 2003 November 2, 2003 July 6, 2004 February 16, 2005 February 25, 2005 April 30, 2005 February 2, 2007