care for those who shall
have borne the battle and for
partner and orphan
For Veteran’s Day.
Adapted for today from Mr. Lincoln’s 2nd Inaugural address where he said:
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.
The flag is a tribute to a Detroit tradition that began in 1923, when the original J.L. Hudson’s building unfurled what was then the largest American flag in the world. That one measured 230 feet long and 90 feet high and was displayed each year for Armistice Day, now known as Veterans Day (Detroit Metro Times).
I grew up knowing about the flag on Hudson’s in Detroit due to The Guinness Book of World Records.
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