Declare November 19 Civil War Remembrance Day, to honor all dead, North & South, and heal the divisions still remaining.

The American Civil War was the greatest tragedy on our soil. The divisiveness of North and South continues to today - let's end it. Lincoln said it best in the Gettysburg Address, and Walt Whitman mourned the nation's losses in, A TWILIGHT SONG: ..war-scenes—of the countless buried un-known soldiers, Of the vacant names, as unindented air's and ea's—the un-return'd,... The brief truce after battle, with grim burial-squads, and the deep-fill'd trenches Of gather'd dead from all America, North, South, East, West, whence they came up, From wooded Maine, New-England's farms, from fertile Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, From the measureless West, Virginia, the South, the Carolinas, Texas, ... Each name recall'd by me from out the darkness and death's ashes...to be deep within my heart.