PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

Loki must be sleeping in today, so I decided to post.



On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.

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As I understand it Loki is not going to be posting for a while, by edict of ADMIN. Hopefully i am wrong.

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Of note: Edward Everett, perhaps the most popular orator of the day, spoke for two hours at the ceremony. Yet, Everett admitted to Lincoln,“I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes.” In spite of Lincoln’s disclaimer that “the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,” his brief speech continues to resonate in the American memory.

Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863

'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 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.'


Thanks for filling in, Paul...Loki had informed me he is on a brief suspension.

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Did some crybaby get their feelings hurt?

Carol Kelly

What could they possibly find faulty about Loki? Guess we all need to be careful.

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Who says censorship isn't alive and well!

badbobby Loc: texas

thanks Slat
hope everyone on OPP reads this great speech

PaulPisces Loc: San Francisco

I am fortunate to count Loki a friend, though we agree on nothing at all but music.
But let's face it, civility is not his strong suit.
That matters not a whit to me, but it does get under the skin of some.




I hope he is back soon.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

You've got to be kidding!

PLT Sarge Loc: Alabama

Hopefully he is gone for awhile, need some fresh air.