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On May 5, 1868, Major General John A. Logan issued General Order No. 11, establishing Decoration Day as a national act of solemn remembrance.

On May 30, thousands gathered at Arlington National Cemetery, where more than 20,000 Union and Confederate dead lay buried, to strew flowers on the graves, listen to orations, and confront the cost of preserving the republic.

The ritual was simply an audit: a republic pausing to reckon with the arithmetic of survival. Over time, Decoration Day became Memorial Day, expanding to honor every American who fell in uniform.

By 1971, it was fixed as the last Monday in May. Its point has never changed: freedom is purchased at a price measured in blood.

Last week, on May 17, thousands returned to the National Mall for Rededicate 250 — a national jubilee of prayer, praise, and thanksgiving that explicitly rededicated the republic as one nation under God ahead of America’s 250th anniversary.

In the shadow of the monuments to our wars and founders, Americans reaffirmed the founding values Logan’s generation understood.

The 1.1 million Americans who have died in uniform since 1775 perished for a constitutional order conceived by men who........

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