Yes this was before my time, and my children's time but hopefully we will never forget the Battle of Gettysburg.....No battle in American history was as dramatic, bloody, or of greater importance than the three-day engagement that began 150 years ago today in and around the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. I had the opportunity to take a tour of the place the battle took place.....I was very honored to learn of so many brave men that made my life so comfortable. The unimaginable horror and carnage that was Gettysburg speaks for itself, but it was left to Lincoln, in his Gettysburg address to leave the battle in our collective memory.
"Four score and seen 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 cannot dedicate.....we cannot consecrate.....we cannot 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....that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died I 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."
Oh Obama, why are you messing it all up now??
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