ONE HUNDRED FIFTY YEARS AGO
on this very day
November 19, 1863 ...
THIS MAN
PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN
gave one of the
MOST IMMORTAL SPEECHES in HISTORY
regarding HUMAN FREEDOM and DIGNITY..
~THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS~
It was delivered at the
dedication of a soldier's cemetery...
to remember the 51,000 men who were killed or wounded
at the
American CIVIL WAR BATTLE of GETTYSBURG
in July 1863.
THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of AMERICANS
are remembering
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
this most HISTORIC day TODAY
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162...thousands-gather-to-commemorate-iconic-speech/
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
It was delivered at the
dedication of a soldier's cemetery...
to remember the 51,000 men who were killed or wounded
at the
American CIVIL WAR BATTLE of GETTYSBURG
in July 1863.
THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of AMERICANS
are remembering
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
this most HISTORIC day TODAY
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162...thousands-gather-to-commemorate-iconic-speech/
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3TPidJfkfY
"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 this 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."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mmFPyDK_8
(please be patient through the SHITTY 15 second commercial,
this vid is SO worth watching and hearing)
"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 this 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."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mmFPyDK_8
(please be patient through the SHITTY 15 second commercial,
this vid is SO worth watching and hearing)
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