Robot eulogy

Eighty-seven years ago, people here started something new: a nation built on freedom and on the idea that everyone is equal.

Now a civil war is testing whether a nation like that can last. We’re standing where many people died trying to answer that question, and we’re here to honor them. That feels right.

Honestly, though, our words can’t make this place sacred. The people who fought here already did that, and nothing we say changes it. What happened here matters far more than anything said today.

So the real question is what we do next. Their work isn’t finished, and it’s ours now. Let what they gave make us care more, not less. Let’s make sure their deaths meant something. Let’s help freedom begin again here, and keep alive a government that belongs to its people, works through them, and serves them.