the nation's attitude should be that of any other sinner and god was chacen, and it should submit, and then move more humbly forward. with mouth -- with all the firmness in the right as god gives us to see the right, let us drive on to finish the work we are in to bind up a nation's wounds, to care for him, who shall born 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 is talking here about his own family. two todd brothers had been killed in the war. one todd sister had lost her husband. there were two widows and six orphans in the todd family alone. he is also addressing a nation of todds. united by blood and divided by bloodshed. well, in conclusion, i would like to suggest that there is a lesson here about ourselves as a national family. as american we are not a family in the sense that we all love each other. looking at the political rhetoric we've used for decades, we clearly don't. rather, we are a family in the same way as the todds. we implicate each other. we can't esca