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| Author: | Ernie Sands [ Tue Nov 19, 2013 6:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Why does this still resonate through 150 years and... |
...STILL gives us goose bumps when reading it? "Four score 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 can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not 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 |
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| Author: | David Danner [ Thu Nov 21, 2013 7:40 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Why does this still resonate through 150 years and... |
Gentlemen: This speech is important for me, "as part of the living" beyond those in 1863. Our country is constituted whole because of those who struggled and gave all they had at Gettysburg to preserve our heritage. For me, the ..."dead did not die in vain." Moreover, they lift me up when I see our flag, our White House, or our Capital. |
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