"Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who
will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me." -Isaiah 6:8

Welcome to the VFW Post 9851 memorial page! This page depicts members of Post 9851 who have passed on, but it is also a memorial and dedication to ALL military servicemen of the past, present, and future. Without you, we have no United States of America and with you, we have freedom! In order to commemorate their service to this Great Nation, Post 9851 presents Abraham Lincoln's famous Gettysburg Address:

"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle

-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."

"But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion that we here 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, November 19, 1863

SSG U.S. ARMY

Joseph P. Bellavia
1975-2003

CPL USMC

Patrick R. Nixon
1981-2003

SFC U.S. ARMY

James "Tre" Ponder, III
1969-2005