"He knew their names. Not all of them. There were too many. But he tried. When Mrs. Bixby lost five sons in the war, Lincoln wrote to her himself, I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. He felt the weight of every death. It broke him. Repeatedly. Because he believed that the men who served were owed everything. Especially the truth about why they were asked to sacrifice. Donald Trump called them suckers. Called them losers. Stood at an American military cemetery and asked his staff, what's in it for them? Lincoln wept for the fallen. Trump couldn't understand why anyone would die for something larger than themselves. 250 years. The men and women in those graves deserved a Lincoln. They still do."