Loki Loc: Georgia

Today in History, possibly the most famous speech in our nation's history was given. The Gettysburg address, dedicating the battlefield where nearly 60,000 Americans were killed and wounded in the famous 3 day battle the previous July.

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Thanks for reminding us Loki. Worth posting the speech so we can all easily read it again here.



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

solarkin

Thanks Loki.
Thanks, no joke here.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

Thankyou for posting the speech

Loki Loc: Georgia

Thanks for posting the speech, Paul. I should have. You know, when I was in 5th grade, we were required to memorize that speech. Of course, that was back when you had to memorize all the states and their capitols also, and start on foreign countries next.

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Glad there is no memory requirement for filing for social security! That is fast approaching for me and I fear I would end up receiving zilch if a memory test were to be implemented.

Loki Loc: Georgia

Fortunately, there is nothing wrong with me. withmewit-hme withmewithem(*^&%