![]() ![]() The Department of Veterans Affairs, launched as a cabinet-level department in 1930, finds its inspiration in Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address. People would stop and stare as the tall man rode beside the endless train of ambulances carrying the wounded from the Virginia battlefields, “conversing freely with the men.” He constantly asked, “How is at the front” or “How can I help you?” ![]() That commute put him in daily contact with Union soldiers being taken to hospitals in the northern part of the city. From there, he rode back and forth to the White House. During the Civil War, in the summertime, Abraham Lincoln lived in a small cottage on the grounds of the Soldiers and Sailors Home overlooking the capital.
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