cryingbluerain Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 The Battle of Gettysburg - 51,000 killed or maimed, the turning point of the Civil War. 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 battlefield 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 (edited) My bad. Edited November 21, 2013 by redrum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pottedplant Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Bless your heart for posting this CBR. One of the most spectacular speeches ever given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cryingbluerain Posted November 21, 2013 Author Share Posted November 21, 2013 Bless your heart for posting this CBR. One of the most spectacular speeches ever given. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DropDown Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 Apparently the current occupier of the White House left the words "under God" out of the speech. Lincoln must have turned in his grave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pottedplant Posted November 21, 2013 Share Posted November 21, 2013 And I am standing on my head!!!! OMG, can it get any worse? Next he'll be taking God out of the Bible. How much longer do we have to endure this crap? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 And I am standing on my head!!!! OMG, can it get any worse? Next he'll be taking God out of the Bible. How much longer do we have to endure this crap? About three more years? Gettysburg is a mandatory place to visit and pay respects for all Americans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redrum Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Apparently the current occupier of the White House left the words "under God" out of the speech. Lincoln must have turned in his grave. How about 'under Allah?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pagefan55 Posted August 17, 2014 Share Posted August 17, 2014 Gettysburg is a mandatory place to visit and pay respects for all Americans. Very true, Strider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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