Memorial Day – May 25, 2026

Was it worth it?

Closing in on the 250th Anniversary of America, THE Constitutional Republic, I think this is a fair question to ask.

Was it worth it?

May 30, 1868 — the FIRST national observance General John Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic issued General Order No. 11 on March 3, 1868, calling for a national day of remembrance for Civil War dead. On that first official Decoration Day, roughly 5,000 people attended a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to decorate the graves of more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers. Children from the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan Home laid flowers, recited prayers, and sang hymns. This was 57, 698 days ago. The sun came up and went down … 57, 698 times and the beat went on.

Did the men and women who fought in America’s Civil War understand the nature of what they were creating?

Was it worth it?

To put General Logan’s ‘world’ into perspective, imagine transporting your world just 100 ish years back …

General Logan had never heard a recorded human voice. The phonograph didn’t exist yet. He’d never seen an electric light. He communicated with his troops via handwritten orders carried by horseback. The fastest he’d ever traveled in his life was probably about 60 mph on a train.

Was it worth it?

If you will, go w/ me to November 19, 1863

Eyewitnesses describe the scene:

“… The night before set the scene perfectly. Gettysburg was a lively place that Wednesday evening. Many visitors who thronged the streets were still seeking lodging. Military bands played patriotic music by torchlight, stirring the crowds. People slept on parlor floors, in churches, anywhere they could find space. Blogger

Then the morning arrived — and the weather cooperated in a way that felt almost symbolic. “It was one of those very few November days in our climate that are adapted for open-air audiences and open-air speakers,” wrote eyewitness Henry Eyster Jacobs. “The sun shone brightly: the air was almost balmy.” Blogger

At 9:30 a.m., Lincoln, riding a brown horse, joined the townspeople and widows marching out to the grounds. About 15,000 people attended the ceremony, including the governors of six Union states. Wikipedia

Then one of the most remarkable eyewitness accounts comes from a 19-year-old schoolgirl named Sallie Cook, who shook Lincoln’s hand that morning in David Wills’s parlor. She sat close to the platform and later recalled: “I heard all of the Address, but it seemed short. Then there was an impressive silence like our Menallen Friends Meeting.

There was no applause when he stopped speaking.” Abraham Lincoln’s Law Offices

That detail — no applause — is extraordinary. The crowd was so stunned, so overwhelmed, they simply went silent. Lincoln reportedly sat down thinking he had failed.”

My wonderful friend, boat school roommate and patriot (progressing SUP surfer) sent me this article which I read yesterday:

https://jameshatch67.substack.com/p/what-american-leaders-can-learn-from

Take the time to read it …because then you will understand or perhaps ‘feel’ the nature of the weight on his shoulders as days before 51,000 Union and Confederate Soldiers had perished. Let that sink in … doing some research, multiple accounts exist that they were STILL burying bodies close to the stage as Lincoln rose to speak. I can imagine it probably didn’t smell like roses, if you get my drift. It was an ugly depiction and objective example of the world of polarity in which we live …where there is PEACE there is VIOLENCE. Sorry folks, that’s just the way it is.

I believe he knew it – to his bones. Why?

I’ve only attended two Change of Command Ceremonies since departing the Navy. One was for the individual who dropped me a quick text yesterday for the article above on leadership and the decisions made by leaders and the effect of those decisions. The other was for another friend who, no doubt, weighed the same feelings that my friend had. At that Change of Command, my friend took the podium, moved it so he could stare directly into his men’s eyes and tell them, without saying a word, “I know the gravity of my decisions and I know you have given it all for our Republic.”

Almost as if they were Templars from a different time, conducting a mission for our Republic, yes, but something far deeper that they cannot comprehend. They will, as many of us will. (Yes, that’s foreshadowing)

You bet your ass Lincoln knew … I cannot imagine the gravity of the moment. This was the pivot for America … a land prophesy foretold was to be “the New Atlantis.” Did they know then? Who knows? Probably not.

In hindsight:

“… They thought they were fighting for the Union. And they were — but perhaps the Union was always something larger than maps and constitutions, larger even than the men who wrote it into being. Francis Bacon dreamed of a New Atlantis three centuries before the first shot was fired at Fort Sumter — a society built not on the accidents of birth and blood but on reason, knowledge, and the radical proposition that human beings could govern themselves toward something approaching wisdom. The men who fell at Gettysburg did not know Bacon’s name. They did not know they were soldiers in a story that began long before 1861 and would not end in 1865. But the experiment they bled to preserve — this strange, arguing, imperfect, luminous Republic — was always the carrying vessel for something the world had not yet seen completed. The Union had to survive not merely as a nation, but as a proof. A demonstration to history that the dream was possible. And now, standing at the far edge of everything those men could not have imagined — in a world of instantaneous light and artificial thought and voices carried across oceans in a breath — we approach the moment Bacon glimpsed from his window in another century: not the perfection of government, but the perfection of human potential itself. Gettysburg was not the end of anything. It was the price paid to keep the door open long enough for us to walk through it…”

Why did this speech … all 22 minutes and 272 words have such an amazingly powerful resonance?

Does anyone else remember any speeches that President Lincoln gave …

What, possibly, could be going on here?

Watch this episode … the Gettysburg Address was DIVINELY guided. THAT is why, at this point in time in the history of our YOUNG Republic, the ‘TRUE AUTHOR’, the “ARCHITECT” of this amazing gift of life, intervened a bit and encrypted, ‘for those w/ eyes to see’, a message that this American experiment, IS divinely guided. (Folks, she created the Heavens and the Earth, correct?)

Could the Gettysburg Address be so powerful because, subconsciously, the Architect (s) of this amazing matrix of consciousness was actually speaking ‘thru’ President Lincoln? In the immortal words of the Big Lebowski “well … that’s just your opinion man.”

WATCH THE VIDEO … (note, the video is 2:27:27 (22 minutes long, 272 words ;))

Was it worth it?

Now that we are back from our time machine trip back to the very beginnings of our Republic, can we answer if the 50,000+ who ‘died’ at Gettysburg ‘died’ in vain?

Was it worth it?

As we approached the election between Vice President Harris and President Trump, I remember, vividly, my disgust w/ the entire process. The debt, charades in Congress, endless wars, corruption, conspiracy theorists, COVID-19, etc. etc. Back then, I would have answered “no, it was not worth it.”

But, folks, in the man who personifies the next President of the United States (maybe?):

“PING” went the audio alerting me to an email in my inbox …

Over the coming weeks, I received 22 videos showing that our founding documents contain ETERNAL TRUTH.

The Declaration of Independence has ETERNAL TRUTH encoded w/in it … the secrets to our very nature of reality. As you continue to seek truth in the age of Disclosure, look no further than this document. On the surface and beneath, it’s a portal to the divine.

Yes, I said that, because over the past year or so, I dove head first into the Codes and their meaning for all of us – and that’s the big ALL (8.5 billion of us) – and the nature of our reality. It’s perfect folks …

Alan will be publishing THE AMERICA CODES in just a few weeks … if you want to prepare and understand what’s coming and what’s happening now …read the book.

I PROMISE, by the end of the book, you will (like me) emphatically be able to state:

YES, IT WAS AND STILL IS SO WORTH IT …

The pyramid still speaks in silence
We listen
Bacon saw it coming
The fallen made us
Thank you
Your blood seals the American covenant